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Derick Burleson
Derick Burleson

Poetry
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Phone: (907)-786-4394
Email: afdb1@uaa.alaska.edu

Biography

Derick Burleson is the author of Never Night (Marick Press 2008). His first collection of poems, Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94, won the 2000 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, and many other journals. A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Burleson teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Alaska­ Fairbanks, and lives with his partner and daughter in Two Rivers.
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