Derek Pollard

Author's Bio

Derek Pollard is an Assistant Editor at Barrow Street, Inc., and is one of the founding editors of Blue Night Press, publisher of the literary journal prechelonian and a limited edition chapbook series. He is on faculty at the Downtown Writer's Center in Syracuse, New York, where he teaches online literature and creative writing courses; at Pratt Institute, where he is a Visiting Instructor; and at the University of Rhode Island, where he is a Teaching Assistant in the English Department.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Inconsequentia (BlazeVox Books, 2010)

Anthologies:

Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak (Harper Perennial, 2009), Diagram III (New Michigan Press, 2008), Zoland Poetry (Zoland Books, 2008), The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel: Second Floor (No Tell Books, 2007), Shade (Four Way Books, 2006)

Journals:

580 Split, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Ambit, Anemone Sidecar, Barrelhouse, Bathtub Gin, Blast Furnace, Blood & Honey Review, Blue Earth Review, Caketrain, Colorado Review, Columbia, Contrary, Court Green, Crash, Diagram, Diner, Ellipsis, Flyway, Forklift, Ohio, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Harpur Palate, Hawai'i Review, H_ngm_n, Identity Theory, Interim, Interrupture, Iota, Limestone, Margie, Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations, Moria, Mudlark, Muse & Stone, Must Zine, No Tell Motel, Pank, Ping Pong, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Redactions, SLAB, Stone Canoe, The Comstock Review, The New Yinzer, Vox, White Whale Review, Word For/Word, Zone 3

Prizes:

Finalist for the Toadlily Press Quartet Series (2012); Semi-finalist for the Three Candles Press Open Book Award (2010); finalist for the Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry (2008); Best Poem selection, Best of the Net 2007; Featured Poem selection, The Page: Poetry, Essays, Language, Ideas (2007); finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize (2007); finalist for the Four Way Books Intro Prize for Poetry (2006); finalist for the Alice James Kinereth Gensler Awards (2006); semi-finalist in the Saturnalia Books Contest (2006); semi-finalist for the Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry (2006); full scholarship for the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers, The Center for Book Arts (2006); Sweet Corn Prize, Flyway (2005); Poetry Prize runner-up, Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art 39 (2004).

Derek Pollard Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Thus & by Derek Henderson, Wolf Face by Matt Hart, Recipes for Endangered Species by Traci O. Connor, Watch the Doors as They Close by Karen Lillis, Eleanor, Eleanor, Not Your Real name by Kathryn Cowles

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Listing last updated: April 3, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Flint, MI

Raised in:

Kalamazoo, MI