KRO

For a number of years, Derek wrote short essays and book reviews for the Kenyon Review Online. You can find that work below.

“Rip Van Winkle Gets Woke”

“Spontaneous Me,” the Beer

“Salut au Monde!” the Beer

“Song of the Open Road,” the Beer

“To a Locomotive in Winter,” the Beer

“O Captain! My Captain!” the Beer

“The Prairie-Grass Dividing,” the Beer

“Song of Myself,” the Beer

Why American Poets Ought to Translate More Poems

I Search Myself and Sing Myself:
On T.R. Hummer’s After the Afterlife

Luck, Lit, & Gutter Spouts

On Beatrice Hastings:
On the Life and Work of a Lost Modern Master

NSFW: On Hysterical Literature, Leaves of Grass, and the Sexy Reading Movement

An Open Letter from a Poet on the Professor's Watch List 

Why I’m Still Not Convinced that Meter
is Physiological

Iambic Pentameter Has Nothing to Do with Your Heart

Children’s Poetry: Four Short Takes

A Last Minute Shopper’s Guide to Children’s Poetry

The Daniel Swiftboating of Helen Vendler

A Micro-Interview with Derek Mong

The Poet’s Salter: An Appreciation of James Salter