Derek Mong is the author of the poetry collection Other Romes (Saturnalia, 2011) and a chapbook of Latin adaptions, The Ego and the Empiricist (fall 2017). The Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College, he holds degrees from Stanford (PhD), the University of Michigan (MFA), and Denison University (BA). His poetry has appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, Court Green, the New England Review, and elsewhere. With his wife and co-translator, Anne O. Fisher, he has completed The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin. He blogs at the Kenyon Review Online and reviews poetry for the Gettysburg Review.

Other poems by Derek Mong in Verse Daily:
April 4, 2018:   "Heliotrope, Or Man's Mind Angles Inevitably Toward God" "No sliver of self    held in reserve, no..."
June 15, 2011:   "Speculation" "Have I cornered you, my self, again..."

Books by Derek Mong:

Other poems on the web by Derek Mong:
"In the Shadow of a Scrivener's Quill"
"Colloquy with St. Mary of Egypt"
"The Air"
"An Ordinary Evening in San Francisco"
"The Second Year"
"On the Hills of Perusia"
"Marriage"
"Old Tyme with a Y"
Five poems

Derek Mong's Website.

Derek Mong on Twitter.