Derek Mong is the author of two poetry collections from Saturnalia Books, Other Romes and The Identity Thief, as well as a chapbook from Two Sylvias Press, The Ego and the Empiricist. The Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College, he holds degrees from Stanford, the University of Michigan, and Denison University. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Blackbird, Pleiades, and elsewhere. He and his wife, Anne O. Fisher, received the 2018 Cliff Becker Translation Award for The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin. He blogs at the Kenyon Review Online.
Poetry
July/Aug 2017
“When the Earth Flies into the Sun
it will be morning everyday,” a dawn of lost receipts and dial tones, of unpaired socks surviving last night’s wash— we slip one on and step into our liquefying windows. […]
Nonfiction
July/Aug 2015
Ten New Ways to Read Ronald Johnson’s “Radi os”
It was a dog that introduced me to the work of Ronald Johnson. Or rather it was the dog’s owner, a friend and poet, who—having named his dog Ronald Johnson—ensured […]
Poetry
Spring 2008
Equivalents
Concerning equivalents: lost amid the Roman catacombs, a priest will halve his candle flame until one glow doubles and redoubles on the tongues of terra-cotta pots— a lesson the split earthworm […]
Derek Mong
Derek Mong is the author of Other Romes (Saturnalia Books, 2011) and the poetry editor at Mantis. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the University of Wisconsin, the University […]