Derek Mong is the author of two poetry collections from Saturnalia Books, Other Romes and The Identity Thief, and a chapbook, The Ego and the Empiricist, from Two Sylvias Press. Individual poems, essays, and translations have appeared widely: the LA Times, the Boston Globe, the Kenyon Review, Free Inquiry, At Length, and the New England Review. He and his wife, Anne O. Fisher, received the Cliff Becker Translation Award for The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin. He is an Associate Professor of English at Wabash College and a contributing editor for Zócalo Public Square.

Other poems by Derek Mong in Verse Daily:
November 12, 2018:   "We Live Our Lives through Other People's Bodies" "till we' re no more than campfires..."
April 4, 2018:   "Heliotrope, Or Man's Mind Angles Inevitably Toward God" "No sliver of self    held in reserve, no..."
June 15, 2011:   "Speculation" "Have I cornered you, my self, again..."
March 14, 2007:   "Blackout" "Little blue bolt on a split wire..."

Books by Derek Mong:

Other poems on the web by Derek Mong:
Two poems
"To the First Speaker"
"Colloquy with St. Mary of Egypt"
"The Air"
Four poems
"The Sun"
"The White Wash On"
"Old Tyme with a Y"

Derek Mong's Website.

Derek Mong on Twitter.

Other poems by Lords of Misrule editors: Rebecca Lauren & Henry Israeli in Verse Daily:
May 24, 2023:   "Thinkin Bout You" by Shayla Lawson
May 19, 2023:   "Thumb" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
May 18, 2023:   "They Are Taking The Animals Out Of The Offices" by Allison Titus
May 17, 2023:   "The Popular Vote" by Star Black
May 16, 2023:   "Love" by Martha Silano