Derek Graf is the author of Green Burial, winner of the 2021 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award for a First or Second Book of Poems. His poetry has appeared in Sixth Finch, The Journal, Booth, and elsewhere. He teaches at Stevens Institute of Technology and lives in New York City.

Books by Derek Graf:

Other poems on the web by Derek Graf:
Two poems
Five poems
"Ec(h)o-Terrorist"
"There are No Birds in My House"
"Old Match"
Four poems
"The World Does End"
"Of Rabid Dogs and the Recognition"
"In the Rendaku Forest"
"My Night as a Splinter and a Mirror"
Four poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Better Weather"
"Reciting Richard III at 25 knots"

About Green Burial:

"Lush and frantic, GREEN BURIAL submerges us in a dazzling, apocalyptic pastoral. Here we find a brother's funeral and a lover's last drink on the way to rehab as we travel a dreamscape of birds, trash, down-on-their-luck towns, motels and oil derricks. 'A body falls/ through the galaxies/ inside an opal,' the poet writes. And so, we do. In Graf's hands the end of the world is both grief-stricken and saturated with an exhilarating, hallucinatory zeal."
—Kirun Kapur