Derek C. Mong
Contacts:
[email protected]
440-227-4681 (cell)
www.derekmong.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D (projected) in English Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 2016.
(defense scheduled for September 2015; Advisor: Roland Greene)
M.A. in English Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 2012.
M.F.A. in Creative Writing (poetry), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2006.
B.A. in English (Writing), Denison University, Granville, Ohio, May 2004.
Minor: Latin
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Graduate Student Instructor, Stanford University, Stanford, California, winter 2011 and fall 2013.
Instructor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 2012.
Axton Fellow in Poetry, Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky,
2008 – 2010.
Lecturer, Department of English, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, fall
2007.
Visiting Writer / Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing,
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006 – 2007.
Graduate Student Instructor, Department of English, University of Michigan, 2005 – 2006.
COURSES TAUGHT
Stanford University
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PWR 1: “Writing and Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of the Written Self,” winter 2012.
PWR 1: “Writing and Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of the Written Self,” spring 2012.
Stanford University (as teaching assistant)
English 160: “Poetry and Poetics,” fall 2013 (with Dr. Kenneth Fields).
English 126D: “Victorian Sex,” winter 2011 (with Dr. Claire Jarvis).
University of Louisville
English 202: “Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose, and Drama,” fall 2008.
English 371: “Contemporary American Poetry: The Long and the Short of It,” spring 2009.
English 321: “The Pure Products of America: Writers of the Middle Generation, 1945 –
1960,” fall 2009.
English 507: “The Pedagogy of Creative Writing: Options for Teaching,” spring 2010.
Kenyon College Young Writer’s Workshop
Two Week Intensive Workshop: “Generating New Writing.” summer 2008.
One-Day Workshop: “Blackberries, Crunchberries, Marion Berry, Oh My!: Writing
About Food.” summer 2008.
Edna St. Vincent Millay Society
Eight Week Workshop: “Poetry Writing at Steepletop.” winter 2008.
SUNY Albany
English 102z: “Introduction to Creative Writing: The Art of Poetry and Prose,” fall 2007.
English 100z: “Introduction to Analytical Writing: Reading the Personal Essay,” fall 2007.
InkBerry, Literary Arts in the Berkshires
Six Week Workshop: “Plumping our Poems, Flashing Our Fiction: Prose Poems, Short
Shorts, and the Sticky In-Between,” October – November, 2007.
University of Madison-Wisconsin
English 203: “Creative Writing: An Introduction to Poetry and Prose,” fall 2006.
English 300: “Delightful Contradictions: Writing the American Prose-Poem and Short
Short,” spring 2007.
The University of Michigan
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English 125 (composition): “The Art and Argument of the Personal Essay,” spring 2006.
English 223: “Creative Writing: An Introduction to Poetry and Prose,” fall 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
Poems in Anthologies, Periodicals, and Online:
“In the Land Between Sex and Conception,” “The Second Year,” and “The Undecided
Voter.” American Literary Review. (forthcoming 2015)
“An Ordinary Evening in San Francisco.” Blue Lyra Review. (forthcoming 2015)
“The Book of Sex” and “The Book of Sex 2.” Potomac Review. (forthcoming 2015)
“The Rented House.” Printer’s Devil Review. (forthcoming 2015)
“A Time Machine in 60 Years or Less or Your Money Back,” “An Invitation to Mr. Eric
Parrish,” “Theory of the Afterlife,” “Fool’s Literature,” and “Convinced Speech is
Unreliable My Linguist Friend Turns to Me and Says, ‘The Cotton Clothing is Made of
Comes from Machines.” Chariton Review 38.1 (spring 2015) 64 – 71.
“To Assemble This Poem Properly,” “Flying Is Everything I Imagine Now and More,”
“Coccyx,” “To My Older Sibling Miscarried,” “Heliotrope, Or Man’s Mind Angles
Inevitably Toward God,” “To Translate This Poem Properly,” and “The Air.”
Enclave (China) 7 (2015). 145 – 156.
“Since the Advent of the Fisher King I’ve Been a Fool.” Cooper Street 2.
www.cooperstreetjournal.com/#!since-the-advent/c6bg (January 2015).
“The Air.” The Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week (online).
www.missourireview.com/archives/derek-mong-the-air/ (January 12, 2015).
“We Live Our Lives Through Other People’s Bodies,” “To Translate This Poem Properly,”
and “To Assemble This Poem Properly.” Laurel Review 47.2 (2014) 11 – 13.
“Lightning 2.” Cream City Review 38.2 (fall/winter 2014) 107.
“Upon Learning That All the Gold in the World Would Fill Just Two Olympic Swimming
Pools.” 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry (2014) 22 – 23.
“First Heartbeat.” Cincinnati Review 11.1 (summer 2014) 96 – 97.
“I Call My Journal Robert W. Shields.” Cimarron Review 186 (winter 2014) 51 – 52.
“Flying is Everything I Imagine Now and More.” Love Rise Up. Benu Press. (2012) 66 – 68.
“Midnight at the School of Cosmetology.” American Literary Review 23.1 (spring 2012) 47 –48.
“In the Shadow of a Scrivener’s Quill.” Artful Dodge 50/51 (winter 2012) 4 – 5.
“Syncopation” and “Nectarines.” Pembroke Magazine 43. (summer 2011) 119 – 122.
“Speculation.” Verse Daily. www.versedaily.org/2011/speculation.shtml (June 15, 2011).
“Upon Learning That All the Gold in the World Would Fill Just Two Olympic Swimming
Pools.” Court Green 8 (winter 2011) 49 – 51.
“A-Fib” Memorious 15. www.memorious.org/?id=350 (October 2010).
“Too Bad the Whole World Swings Metal.” Cimarron Review 172 (summer 2010) 69 – 70.
“Thanatology.” Yalobusha Review 15.1 (spring 2010) 11.
“The Nearest Thing to Heaven in the Continental 48.” Lo-Ball 1 (spring 2010) 73 – 76.
“Instructions for Burial.” Lumberyard 5 (winter 2010) 24.
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“Heft” and “Thumbprint.” River and Sound Review.
www.riverandsoundreview.org/Archives/issue2.htm (January 2010).
“Thumbprint.” Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf: Poetry on Postcards. Woodrow Hall Editions.
October, 2009.
“Dilation” and “Lost Highways.” Arch Literary Journal 2. http://archjournal.wustl.edu/
(June 2009).
“Pathetic Fallacy.” Cincinnati Review 6.1 (summer 2009) 110 – 111.
“Recovery.” New Delta Review 26.1 (winter 2009) 37.
“Pectus Excavatum.” Notre Dame Review 27 (winter/spring 2009) 201 – 203.
“O h i o—.” Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes. C&R Press (2009) 132 – 133.
“!” and “Homesickness.” Zephyrs: Volume One (spring 2008) 7 and 14. Millay Press:
Austerlitz, NY.
“Mia.” TriQuarterly 130 (spring 2008) 168 – 170.
“Equivalents.” The Kenyon Review 30.2 (spring 2008) 90 – 91.
“Flying is Everything I Imagine Now and More” and “Morning, Noon, and Night.”
Pleiades 28.1 (2008) 52 – 59.
“O h i o—.” Alehouse 2 (winter 2007) 49.
“Coccyx— ” and “Octopus.” Southeast Review 25.1 (spring 2007) 36 – 42.
“Apodosis and the Ocean Waves.” Redivider 24.2 (winter 2007) 25.
“Fellini Sestina: Roma.” Third Coast (spring 2007) 76 – 77.
“Recoil.” Missouri Review Online. www.missourireview.com. Poem of the Week. May 26, 2007.
“Blackout.” Verse Daily. www.versedaily.org/2007/blackout.shtml. March 13, 2007.
“The Somatosensory Cortex” and “Blackout.” Court Green 4 (winter 2007) 43 – 51.
“Fellini Sestina: Cabiria” and “Period.” Michigan Quarterly Review 46.1 (winter 2007) 147 –153.
“Uncles.” Crab Orchard Review. 11.2 (summer/fall 2006) 128 – 129.
“Vitruvian Man,” “Recoil,” “To an Older Sibling Miscarried,” and “Speculum.” Missouri
Review 29.1 (spring 2006) 135 – 141.
Adaptations from the Latin:
“Melancholia.” Drunken Boat (forthcoming 2015).
“Blason Wherein My Head Becomes a Mountain” and “On the Flooding of Prague.” Printer’s
Devil Review (forthcoming 2015).
“Hide and Seek.” Laurel Review 47.2 (2014) 14 – 15.
“Heliotrope, or Man’s Mind Angles Inevitably Toward God.” American Literary Review 23.1
(spring 2012) 49 – 50.
“His Doctor, His Fever,” “A Priest to Paul Russus,” and “Phillip Nerius Moderates
Ambition with Two Words.” Artful Dodge 50/51 (winter 2012) 10 – 13.
“The Ego and the Empiricist.” Minnesota Review 76 (summer 2011) 53 – 54.
“The Rope Dancer” and “The Coming of the Honeyed Age.” The Southern Review 47.1
(winter 2011) 56 – 59.
“On the Hills of Perusia.” Devil’s Lake Review. http://english.wisc.edu/devilslake/index.html
(fall 2010).
“Litany” and “The Sun is Our Ablest Meteorologist.” Colorado Review 37.2 (summer 2010)
126 – 129.
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“The Emperor Hadrian to the Poet P. Annius Florus.” River and Sound Review.
http://www.riverandsoundreview.org/Archives/issue2.htm (January, 2010).
“Song of Songs 5.6” and “The Tomb of the Dying Year.” Crazyhorse 70.1 (fall 2006) 106 –
110.
“Latin Hymns” (five) rendered from Boethius, Alcuin, and Peter Damian. The Southern
Review 42.3 (summer 2006) 550 – 559.
Critical Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, and Reviews:
“Ten New Ways to Read Ronald Johnson’s Radi os.” Poetry Daily. (July 6, 2015).
“Nude Dude Poets.” Michigan Quarterly Review. (forthcoming 2016)
“To Help My Son Live Easily: Notes on the Dead in American Poetry.” Gettysburg Review.
(forthcoming 2016)
“Ten New Ways to Read Ronald Johnson’s Radi os.” The Kenyon Review. (forthcoming 2015)
“Walt Whitman’s iPad.” Poetry Northwest. www.derekmong.com/musings/walt-whitmansipad-essay-at-poetry-northwest (May 8, 2015).
“Introduction to New Poetry.” Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation. 13
(spring 2015) 13.
“Introduction to New Poetry.” Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation. 12 (spring
2014) 13.
“Introduction to New Poetry.” Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation. 11 (spring
2013) 11.
“Walking with Broken Legs: On ‘Songs of Sickness,’ Translation, and Jesuit Latin.” Artful
Dodge 50/51 (winter 2012) 6 – 9.
“First Book Poets in Conversation: Derek Mong and Dean Rader.” Boxcar Poetry Review.
www.boxcarpoetry.com/030/conversation_mong_rader.html/ (summer 2012).
“The First Time: On W.S. Merwin.” Memorious.
https://memoriousmag.wordpress.com/2012/04/01 (April 1, 2012).
“English As a Second Language.” Michigan Quarterly Review 51.1 (winter 2012) 119 – 131.
“Translator’s Note.” The Southern Review 47.1 (winter 2011) 55.
“Jude Nutter’s I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman. A Review.” Arch Literary
Journal 3. http://archjournal.wustl.edu/ (March 2010).
“Exodus.” Crab Orchard Review 14.1 (winter/spring 2009) 221 – 224.
“Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry: A Review.” Alehouse 3 (spring
2009) 106 – 109.
“Dramatic, Custom-Built Spanish Colonial.” Cream City Review 32.1 (spring 2008) 19 – 23.
The Armpit Epiphany (weekly comic). The Cleveland Plain Dealer (fall 1999 – spring 2000).
Thirteen reviews, articles, and features for www.iberkshires.com (winter – spring 2008).
Translations of Maxim Amelin’s Russian Poetry and an Interview (with Anne O. Fisher):
“Homer’s Shredded to Quotes,” “In August the Stars Shoot Through the Night Air,” and
“Temple with an Arcade.” Atlanta Review 21.2 (spring/summer 2015) 37 – 39.
“In Memory of East Prussia,” “Aesop’s Language,” “You Take Root in Earth,” “Every
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Day,” “A Many-Throated, Many-Mawed, Many-Tongued Rumble.” Lunch Ticket.
http://lunchticket.org/five-poems/ (December 2014).
“Teach Me to Beseech You,” “In August the Stars Shoot Through the Night Air,” “I Wish I
Owned My Own Home,” and “The Hulking Carcass of a Dead Orca.” Reunion: The
Dallas Review 4 (2014) 80 – 86.
“Cyclopean Language Consists of Consonants.” Gobshite Quarterly 15/16 (summer 2014)
50 – 51.
“Temple with an Arcade,” “Vindictive Goddess, Statue Now Woken,” and “Why Repeat
Ourselves?” Jacket2. http://jacket2.org/interviews/resisting-art-entropy-triumphant
(August 6, 2014).
“Resisting the Art of Entropy Triumphant: An Interview with Maxim Amelin.” Jacket2.
http://jacket2.org/interviews/resisting-art-entropy-triumphant (August 6, 2014).
“Rising at Morning From My Graveside,” “I’m Thirty But Feel Three Hundred,” “Long
Now You’ve Lounged in Earth.” Asymptote. http://www.asymptotejournal.com/
article.php?cat=Poetry&id=164&curr_index=4. (January 14, 2014).
“Half Enraptured, Partially Indignant.” Big Bridge Magazine: An Anthology of Twenty-First
Century Russian Poetry. http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/twentyfirstcenturyrussianpoetry
/twenty-first-century-russian-poetry-contents.html. (July 2013).
“On the Acquisition of a Volume of V.I. Maikov’s Works and Translations” and “Where
Burdocks and Nettles.” Cerise Press 5.13. www.cerisepress.com/05/13/on-theacquisition-of-a-volume-of-v-i-maikovs-works-and-translations#english (2013)
“There’s No Peace on Earth or In Heaven.” Chtenia: Readings from Russia 18 (spring 2012)
66 – 67.
POETRY COLLECTION
Other Romes (Saturnalia Books, February 2011) amasses an eclectic range of influences—Fellini films,
eating contests, Jesuit poetry, jetliners—to confront the awkward but inevitable relationship between
our personal narratives and the larger public sphere. And like Rome, the city haunting so much of
this work, these poems refuse to settle for any one voice or tone. Restrained at times as Latin odes,
or expansive as Whitman, these poems take erotic love and in-flight disaster through a range of
formal choices: subtle, fissuring syllabics; strict sestinas; free verse; and more. The end result is a
collection which, as David Baker notes, demonstrates that “the privacy of the lyric world is part and
parcel with the communal imagination.” This book was a finalist for the Saturnalia Book Prize, the
Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize (Waywiser Press) and The Journal’s First Book Prize (Ohio State
University Press).
CRITICISM in PROGRESS:
The MARRIAGE of EMILY DICKINSON and WALT WHITMAN
Though Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman spent their lives unwed, their afterlives have never been
free of marital vows. Take Whitman, who—having ducked an early proposal from Anne Gilchrist, a
widowed, English admirer—finds himself the imaginary suitor to Ronald Johnson and Hart Crane.
Dickinson, however, on account of her perceived seclusion, prompts us not to thoughts of
consummation, but of extended courtship. In the proposed book, I aim to explore how marriage
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and weddings permeate the core poetry in question, before exploring the marital permutations in the
afterlives of Walt and Emily. Marriage then serves as both subject matter and metaphor, leading me
to such texts as Edward Weston’s photographs for a 1941 Leaves of Grass (made with Charis Wilson,
his new, and soon to be ex-, wife); Bill Clinton’s historic speech to the Human Rights Committee
(he cites Whitman); Jerome Charyn’s controversial novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson (2003); and
a peculiar steampunk novella, “Walt and Emily,” where the titular characters fall in love.
AWARDS and HONORS
Finalist, Baltic Writing Residency Kentucky Writers Fellowship, Louisville, Kentuckey, 2015.
Semi-Finalist, The Black River Chapbook Competition, Black Lawrence Press, New York, 2015.
Semi-Finalist, The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multi-Lingual Texts, Lunch Ticket
(lunchticket.org), Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA. 2014.
Axton Poetry Fellow, Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 20082010.
First Runner-Up, Yellowwood Poetry Prize, Yalobusha Review, University, Mississippi, 2009.
Pushcart Prize Nomination (poetry), Pushcart Press, 2008.
First Prize, Artsmith Poetry Contest, Artsmith, Eastsound (Orcas Island), Washington, 2008.
Grand Prize, 2007 Happy Hour Poetry Awards, Alehouse Press, San Francisco, California, 2007.
Peter Taylor Fellowship, The Kenyon Review Summer Writers’ Workshop, Kenyon College,
Gambier, Ohio, June 2007.
Pushcart Prize Nomination (poetry), Pushcart Press, 2007.
Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Department of
English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, fall 2006 – 2007.
Finalist, The Southeast Review Poetry Prize, The Southeast Review, Tallahassee, Florida, 2006.
Hopwood Non-Fiction Award from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2006.
Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Choice Prize (poetry), The Missouri Review, Columbia, Missouri, 2005.
Arthur and Mary Platsis Award, scholarship in Greek literature, Department of Classics, University
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of Michigan, 2005.
Hopwood Poetry Award, University of Michigan, 2005.
John and Helen S. Wagner Award (poetry), University of Michigan, 2005.
WRITERS@WORK Award in Non-Fiction (honorable mention), Quarterly West, Salt Lake City,
Utah, 2005.
Contexts for Classics Translation Prize, Department of Classics, University of Michigan, 2005.
Michael R. Gutterman Prize (poetry), University of Michigan, 2004.
Cornwell Fellowship, M.F.A. Program, University of Michigan, 2004 – 2005.
Jonathan Everett Dunbar Scholarship in the Humanities, Denison University, Granville, Ohio,
2000 – 2004.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Poetry Reviewer, Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg, PA, summer 2015 – current.
Poetry Editor, Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
winter 2012 – current.
Reader, 2011 Barrow Street Book Contest, Barrow Street Press, New York, New York, summer
2011.
Host, Mary Jo Bang Reading, The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900,
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, February 18, 2010.
Host, Terrance Hayes Reading and Master Class, Axton Reading Series, Department of English,
University of Louisville, Kentucky, November 12, 2009.
Host and Coordinator for the conference “The Soul That Grows in Darkness: A Festival of Film
and Verse,” Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, April 8-9,
2009.
Host, Laurence Goldstein’s talk, “Dangerous Glamour: Poetry, Movies, & the Public Imagination,”
as part of “The Soul That Grows in Darkness,” Department of English, University of
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, April 8, 2009.
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Host, Laurence Goldstein and Wayne Miller Poetry Reading, as part of “The Soul That Grows in
Darkness,” Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, April 8,
2009.
Judge and Coordinator, “Big Screen Dreams: A Poetry Contest for Undergraduates,” as part of
“The Soul That Grows in Darkness,” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, winter
2009.
Reader, 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize, Sarabande Books, Louisville, Kentucky, winter 2009.
Panelist, “Breaking into Publishing,” Kenyon Review Literary Festival, Kenyon College, Gambier,
Ohio, November 8, 2008.
Host, Jeffrey McDaniel Reading, Axton Reading Series, Department of English, University of
Louisville, Kentucky, October 2, 2008.
Freelance Writer/Reporter, www.iBerkshires.com, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2007-2008.
Reader, 2007-2008 Poetry Fellowships, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Department of
English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, winter 2007.
Judge, August Derleth Prize, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, winter
2007.
Preliminary Judge, Brittingham & Pollack Prizes in Poetry, University of Wisconsin-Madison and
The University of Wisconsin Press 2006.
Residential Director and Head Teaching Assistant, The Jonathan R. Reynolds Young
Writers’ Workshop, Denison University, summers 2005-2006.
Teaching Assistant, Jonathan R. Reynolds Young Writers’ Workshop, Denison University,
summers 2003-2004.
Organizer and Co-Host, Mark Webster Reading Series, University of Michigan, 2005 – 2006.
Organizer, J. Edgar Edwards Reading Series, University of Michigan, 2004 – 2005.
Freelance Tutor, English as a Second Language, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2004 – 2006.
READINGS, INTERVIEWS, PAPERS, and LECTURES
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Paper, “Whitman, Dickinson, and the American Wedding,” Stanford Poetics Workshop, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, May 18, 2015.
Paper, “The Would-Be Book of Marriage: Charis Wilson and Edward Weston Remake Leaves of
Grass (1942),” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville,
KY, February, 2014.
Paper (with Anne Fisher), “On Translating the Poetry of Maxim Amelin,” Second International
Conference of Literary Translators, Institute for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia,
September 6, 2012.
Poetry Reading, Pegasus Books, Berkeley, CA, June 6, 2012.
Poetry Reading (with Anne Fisher), Albany Public Library, Albany, CA, May 8, 2012.
Interview with J.P. Dancing Bear, host of “Out of Our Minds,” KKUP (San Jose, CA), November
28, 2011. http://outofourminds.posterous.com/ (audio).
Poetry Reading, Stanford University Bookstore, Stanford, CA, November 2, 2011.
Interview with Michael Nye, managing editor of The Missouri Review, available at:
http://www.missourireview.com/audiovisual/files/2011-10-18-2_mong_interview_podcast.mp3 (audio).
Poetry Reading and Master Class, Axton Reading Series, University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky, October 27-28, 2011.
Poetry Reading, Glass Bookcase Reading Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin,
October 25, 2011.
Poetry Reading and Roundtable Discussion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
September 15, 2011.
Interview with T. Hetzel, The Living Writers Show, WCBN (Ann Arbor, MI), September 14, 2011.
Poetry Reading, Beck Lecture Series, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, September 13, 2011.
Poetry Reading, Moe’s Books, Berkeley, California, June 2, 2011.
Interview, “Influences,” with the Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, May 7, 2011.
Interview with Jennifer Luebbers, “Of Beowulf, Books, & Babies,” available at:
http://reynolds.denison.edu/blog/ (April 3, 2011).
Poetry Reading, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Washington, March 19, 2011.
Poetry Reading, Bardeo, Washington, D.C., February 3, 2011.
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Poetry Reading, Great Overland Book Company, San Francisco, California, November 14, 2010.
Poetry Reading, Lo-Ball 2 Release Party, Mrs. Dalloway’s Books, Berkeley, California, September 9,
2010.
Interview with Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, host of Accents: A Radio Show for Literature, Art, & Culture
on WRFL (Lexington, Kentucky), May 14, 2010. Available at:
http://www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/accents_051410.mp3 (audio).
Reading and Talk, “On Collaboratively Translating Maxim Amelin.” Translatio: A Conference of
Literature and Translation, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, April 22,
2010.
Lecture, “On Collaboratively Translating Maxim Amelin.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 15, 2010.
Poetry Reading, InKY, The Rudyard Kipling, Louisville, Kentucky, October 9, 2009.
Lecture and Workshop, “The Opposite of Crunchberries is Fried Chicken and Other Truths from
the Great Plate of American Letters.” Festival of the Written Word, Spalding University,
September 23, 2009.
Poetry Reading, Axton Reading Series, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, September 10,
2009.
Lecture, “The Opposite of Crunchberries is Fried Chicken and Other Truths from the Great Plate
of American Letters.” Jonathan R. Reynolds Young Writers Workshop, Denison University,
June 17 2009 and June 16, 2008.
Poetry Reading, The American Center, Moscow, Russia, May 7, 2009.
Poetry Reading, Bilingua Bookstore, Moscow, Russia, May 6, 2009.
Poetry Reading, Carmichael’s Bookstore, Louisville, Kentucky, April 19, 2009.
Poetry Reading, Kenyon Review Literary Festival, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, November 8,
2008.
Poetry Reading and Interview with Jay Bates, A River and Sound Review, Orcas Performing Arts Center,
Orcas Island, Washington, May 31, 2008. Episode 21: www.riverandsoundreview.org (audio).
Poetry Reading, Wordplay Series, Papyri Books, North Adams, Massachusetts, April 12, 2008.
Peter Taylor Reading, Kenyon Review Summer Writers' Workshop, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, June
23, 2007.
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Fellowship Reading, Institute for Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 19, 2007.
Poetry Reading, Works-in-Progress Series, Crazy Wisdom Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April
11, 2007.
Poetry Reading, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Editors’ Choice Prize, April 15, 2006.
Poetry Reading, Works-in-Progress Series, Crazy Wisdom Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March
15, 2006.
Poetry Reading, Mark Webster Reading Series, University of Michigan, March 30, 2006.
Poetry Reading, J. Edgar Edwards Reading Series, University of Michigan, November 20, 2004.
Interview with Jason Koo, poetry editor at the Missouri Review, available at:
www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/2006/05/16/a-few-words-with-derek-mong/#more280 (written)
and www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/2006/08/04/audio-feature-an-interview-withderek-mong/#more-7 (extended audio)
REFERENCES
Roland Greene, Professor of English, Stanford University: [email protected] / 650-725-1214
Ken Fields, Professor of English, Stanford University: [email protected] / 650-723-1201
Jeff Skinner, Professor of English, University of Louisville: [email protected] / 502-852-3057
Jesse Lee Kercheval, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison: [email protected]
Linda Gregerson, Professor of English, University of Michigan: [email protected]
Larry Goldstein, Professor of English, University of Michigan: [email protected]
David Baker, Professor of English, Denison University: [email protected]