Derek Mong

“Speculation”

Derek — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:25:29 +0000

(The Missouri Review 29.1, spring 2006 and VerseDaily, June 15, 2011)

Poetry and Translation Reading, Albany, CA, 5/08/2012

Derek — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:00:58 +0000

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Derek at the Albany Branch of the Alameda County Library. He’ll be joined by his wife Annie, who’ll read from her recently published translation of The Twelve Chairs (Northwestern 2011), Ilf and Petrov’s classic satire of the early Soviet state. Copies of Annie’s translation can be purchased directly from Northwestern here.

Together they’ll read from The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin, their award-winning translation-in-progress. Come see why Amelin (b. 1970) has been hailed as a pre-eminent voice in post-Soviet Russian verse.

The Albany library is located at 1247 Marin Ave., Albany, CA 94706. Albany is just west of Berkeley, between the city and the Bay.

Event begins at 7 PM

Contact: Dan Hess (510) 526-3720 x17 dhess@aclibrary.org

Poetry Reading with D.A. Powell, Berkeley, CA 6/20/2012

Derek — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:01:28 +0000

Derek is honored to be reading with D.A. Powell, a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Powell is the author, most recently, of Useless Landscapes or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf 2012). He lives in San Francisco.

The reading will be held at the Pegasus Books in downtown Berkeley, located at 2349 Shattuck Avenue. Come to mingle at 7 PM. Reading begins at 7:30.

Poetry Reading & Roundtable, University of Michigan, 9/15/2011

Derek — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:32:20 +0000

I’ll be reading from Other Romes at my MFA alma mater, the University of Michigan, on September 15, 2011. I’m happy to be joined by Jessmyn Ward, fellow Michigan grad and award winning novelist.

We’ll be holding a roundtable at 2pm and reading at 5:10 pm. Roundtable will be held in Angell Hall, Room 1176, also known as The Hopwood Room. Reading will be in Helmut Stern Auditorium.

For more information, contact Meg Levad, at mslevad@umich.edu

Poetry Reading, University of Wisconsin, 10/25/2011

Derek — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:38:28 +0000

Swing by Madison, Wisconsin before it’s buried in snow. I’ll be reading at UW-Madison–where I spent a delightful year as their Jay C. & Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow–on October 25th, 2011. The reading is part of their Glass Bookcase Reading Series.

The event will be in the cheery Helen C. White Hall: 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706. (608) 263-3374

Poetry Reading & Workshop, University of Louisville, 10/27 – 10/28/2011

Derek — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:13:48 +0000

Come visit my favorite city in the entire United States (Louisville, Kentucky!) for my reading at the University of Louisville, where I spent 2008 – 2010 as the Axton Fellow in Poetry.

I’ll be reading in the Axton Reading Series at 7:30 on Thursday, 10/27 (in the Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library) and hosting a workshop on Friday 10/28. The workshop, which is open to the public, will run from 10 AM till noon, in Bingham Humanities, Room 300.

Poetry Reading, Stanford Bookstore, 11/2/2011

Derek — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:12:42 +0000

I’ll be reading at the Stanford Bookstore on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at 6:30 PM. The bookstore is in the heart of the Stanford campus.

19 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA – (650) 329-1217

“Period”

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:24:08 +0000

(Michigan Quarterly Review 46.1 winter 2007)

“A-Fib”

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:23:24 +0000

(Memorious 15, October 2010)

“Equivalents”

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:21:23 +0000

(The Kenyon Review 30.2, spring 2008)