Derek Pollard

Author's Bio

Derek Pollard is Assistant Poetry Editor at Witness; 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 University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is a Black Mountain Institute PhD Fellow; at the Downtown Writer's Center in Syracuse, New York, where he teaches online literature and creative writing courses; and at Pratt Institute, where he is a Visiting Instructor.

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, 751 Magazine, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Ambit, Anemone Sidecar, Barrelhouse, Bathtub Gin, Birdfeast, Blast Furnace, Blood & Honey Review, Blue Earth Review, Caketrain, Chariton Review, Colorado Review, Columbia, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, 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, Lunch Ticket, 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, Sidebrow, 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:

The Complete Poems & Prose of William Blake by William Blake, Tantivy by Donald Revell, ARK: The Foundations by Ronald Johnson, The Collected Poems by Kenneth Koch, American Gypsy by Oksana Marafioti

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Listing last updated: April 20, 2013

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