“When the Earth Flies into the Sun

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.