Derek Sheffield

Derek Sheffield

Derek Sheffield teaches at Wenatchee Valley College and had a field residency this summer at Mount St. Helens, where he worked with writers and scientists to provide a creative response to the mountain thirty years after the big blast.

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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
  • Listen "Accident Plays a Part in Art"
    The editors talk with Kasischke on Ken Burns, Lindsay on Krakatau, Sheffield on fishing, and Logan on Hart Crane (and David Foster Wallace).

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Derek Sheffield

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Derek Sheffield teaches at Wenatchee Valley College and had a field residency this summer at Mount St. Helens, where he worked with writers and scientists to provide a creative response to the mountain thirty years after the big blast.

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Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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