Derek Sheffield's collection, Not for Luck, was selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. His other books include Through the Second Skin, runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, and, with coeditors Elizabeth Bradfield and CMarie Furhman, Cascadia: A Field Guide through Art, Ecology, and Poetry (forthcoming). When he isn't editing for Terrain.org, Sheffield can often be found in the woods or rivers along the eastern slopes of the Cascades in Washington.

Other poems by Derek Sheffield in Verse Daily:
January 29, 2013:   "Ornithology 101" "Now that you have staked their skeletons..."

Books by Derek Sheffield:

Other poems on the web by Derek Sheffield:
Six poems
"Delicious Apocalypse"
"On Turning One"
Four poems
"Hitch"
"Emergency"
"Exactly What Needs Saying"
"First Grade"

Derek Sheffield's Website.

About Not For Luck:

"Exquisitely observed, crystalline in its imagery, this book is an act of vision, bringing us the world up close. Keenly attuned to time's passage and the inevitability of loss, these poems unspool patiently, slowing us down so that we may dwell in 'the aggregate beauty of every trout / and star-clotted night.' Like the wood rat in 'The Seconds,' Sheffield is a collector, a historian 'who would make hill after hill of all the years.' Lucky us."
—Ellen Bass