Derek Graf is the author of Green Burial, winner of the 2021 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. His poems have appeared in The Journal, Salt Hill, and Booth. He lives in New York City.
Poems (selected)
o “Small Continuous Explosions,” Verse Daily, Jan. 2, 2023
o “Biotech,” “Temples,” Sixth Finch, Fall 2022
o “Small Continuous Explosions,” “Forms of Interiority,” Black Fox, Issue #21, Nov. 2021
o “Houses Filled With People Who Resemble Other People,” Tulsa Review, Spring 2021
o “There Are No Birds in My House,” Watershed Review, Spring 2021
o “EC(H)O-TERRORIST (2-5),” Cola Literary Review, October 2020
o “To My Dead Neighbor,” The Journal, Issue 44.1: Winter 2020
o “EC(H)O-TERRORIST (1),” Passages North, Dec. 2019
o “Health and Vandalism,” Salt Hill, Fall 2019
o “Old Match,” The Helix Magazine, April 2019
o “If Anyone Asks,” “Lined Up,” “A Safe Place,” “Local History,” “Last Call,” The Monarch Review, April 2017
o “Better Weather,” Booth: A Journal, Feb. 2016
o “On Invisibility,” “Pantoum for Cigarettes (Alternate Ending),” The Boiler Journal, Winter Issue X, 2013