Derek E. Henderson
Education
PhD English, Creative Writing, University of Utah
Dissertation: Songs (Poetry)
MFA English, Creative Writing, University of Utah
Thesis: Day (Poetry)
BA English, University of Iowa
Academic Positions
Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, Lecturer
Introduction to Academic Writing (English 1010) Fall 2010, Spring 2011
Intermediate Science Writing (English 2010) Fall 2010, Spring 2011
Intermediate Poetry Writing (English 3440) Fall 2010
Creative Process of Imaginative Writing (English 2250) Spring 2011
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Instructor
Introduction to Academic Writing (Writing 1010) Fall 2009
Intermediate Writing (Writing 2010) Spring 2010, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2008,
Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003
Introduction to Creative Writing (English 2500) Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2005
Survey of English Literature, Medieval to Renaissance (English 3701) Summer 2010, Summer 2008
Writing in the Social Sciences (Writing 3012) Summer 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
Intermediate Poetry Writing (English 3520) Spring 2006
Writing in a Research University (Writing 3200) Fall 2005
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Teaching Assistant
Shakespeare (English 5711, Instructor of Record: Mark Matheson) Spring 2010, Spring 2008
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, Adjunct Faculty
Academic Writing (English 1010), Fall 2009, Spring 2009
Salt Lake Community College, Taylorsville, Utah, Adjunct Faculty
Academic Writing (English 1010), Spring 2010
Talking Bell English School, Kurume Japan, Instructor
English Writing and Conversation, Fall 1998-Summer 2000
Publications
Books
Thus &, If P Then Q, 2011
Inconsequentia, (with Derek Pollard), BlazeVOX Books, 2010
Chapbooks
November, Blue Night Press, 1996
22 23 (with Derek Pollard), Blue Night Press, 1994
Some Poems, Blue Night Press, 1992
Anthologies
“The Exquisite” (with Derek Pollard) in DIAGRAM III, Del Sol Press, 2008
Selected Poetry
“Song,” Free Verse, forthcoming
“Song,” Eleven Eleven, forthcoming
“Song,” Drunken Boat, forthcoming
from memoranda, Conjunctions, forthcoming
from memoranda, from on inanitiation, “Up, Up, Great Day for Up,” Word for/Word, forthcoming
from memoranda, VOLT, forthcoming
“Song,” DIAGRAM, forthcoming
“A finger I think across,” Hawai’i Review, forthcoming
“There sits juice, nectar soon,” Zoland Poetry Review, forthcoming
“Topograph,” Black Warrior Review, Issue 36.2, Spring/Summer 2010
“Sled,” “Simmer” Cream City Review, Volume 34.1 Spring 2010
“Song,” Puerto del Sol, Volume 45.1, Spring 2010
“Shoulders,” Witness, Volume 23, 2010
“shuffle,” The Wisconsin Review, Volume 44, 2010
“Open to Page” The Journal, Volume 32.3, Autumn/Winter 2009
“Angle on it:—,” “The Ocean Warming,” “Small Prayer,” Pank, Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2009
“Here My Side,” CutBank, Issue 71, Summer 2009
“Thus Dunked in Blue” Drunken Boat, Issue 10, Spring 2009
“’To the Grace of the Unmade Bed,’” “Laughter; Render, Remember,” “Corner Piece and Cog-Wheel,” “Clearly, Early,” “Drowse,” No Tell Motel, March 2009
“sprung” Pisgah Review, Volume 4, Issue 1, Winter 2009
“Song,” Otoliths, Issue 14, Winter 2009
“Song,” E•ratio, Issue 12, 2009
“Regards,” EOAGH, Issue 5, 2009
“According to Me” Dusie, Volume 2, Number 4, 2009
“Spider Carries Herself Across My Sandwich,” “Culled from the Earth,” “Fastening” Parcel, Number 4, 2009
“’If fortune torments me, hope contents me’” Bombay Gin, Volume 35, Issue 1, 2009
“Coal Pile Photograph,” “A Large Share of Light,” “Puddle” BlazeVOX, Fall 2008
“Translate tendresse” Versal, Issue 6, 2008
“‘So I did sit and eat’” Interim, Volume 26, Nos 1 & 2, 2008
“Our Yard Had a Gate,” “Quartz” Free Verse, Issue 14, Spring 2008
“Family” DIAGRAM, Volume 7, Issue 5, Fall 2007
“Here it Came Clear,” “to kudzu” GutCult, Issue 8, Spring 2007
from Inconsequentia, Eight Poems (with Derek Pollard) Caketrain, Issue 5, 2007
from Towards a Biography of Sudek’s Notebook, Colorado Review, Volume 33, Issue 2, Summer 2006
“Inconsequentia” ActionYes!, Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2006
“La Conséquence Exquise du Temps” Word for/Word, Number 10, Summer 2006
“Down, Down” Fence, Volume 9, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2006
“The Exquisite” (with Derek Pollard) DIAGRAM, Volume 6, Issue 4, Fall 2006
Reviews
A Sing Economy, ed. Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski, Flim Forum Press (Open Letters Monthly)
Honors and Awards
Finalist, 2009 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry
Finalist, 2008 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry
Nominee, 2008 Ramona W. Cannon Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence in the Humanities
Nominee, 2008 AWP Intro Award
2005 Larry Levis Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Selected Readings
City Arts Reading Series, Salt Lake City Main Library, December 1, 2010
Downtown Writers Center, YMCA of Greater Syracuse, January 29, 2010
City Arts Reading Series, Salt Lake City Main Library, December 9, 2009
City Arts Reading Series Meltdown, Salt Lake City Main Library, September 5, 2007
City Arts Reading Series, Salt Lake City Main Library, January 9, 2007
Cabaret Voltage Reading Series, Salt Lake City, August 30, 2006
Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, June 22, 2006
University of Utah Guest Writers’ Series, April 6, 2006
Conferences and Panels
Panelist, Fair Use and Practice in Poetry and Poetics, Associated Writing Programs Conference, April 8, 2010
Panelist, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, October 8, 2009
Panelist, Louisiana Conference on Language and Literature, February 22, 2008
Panelist, Multifield/Visual/MediaPoetics Panel, Attention/Inattention: Critique and Create Conference, University of Denver, October 7, 2005
Panelist, CLMP Magazine Sales and Promotion Panel, Associated Writing Programs Conference, New Orleans, March 8, 2002
Professional Activities
Associate Editor, Quarterly West, University of Utah, 2003-present
Co-owner, Editor, Blue Night Press, 1991-present
Journals Edited: Prechelonian: A Literary and Fine Art Journal, Issues 1-3
Chapbooks Edited: Some Poems, Derek Henderson
November, Derek Henderson
22 23, Derek Henderson, Derek Pollard, Melissa Mihail, et al.
Echo, Danielle Trussoni
Co-Director, Working Dog Reading Series, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005-2009
Grant Writing: Salt Lake City Arts Council Grants: 2006 ($1000), 2007 ($500), 2008 ($500)
Publicity, Scheduling, Organization, Introductions
Periodicals Buyer, Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, Iowa, 2000-2003