Derek Ellis

Writer || MFA @umdenglish || PhD @binghamtonu || From an old farm in rural KY || Thinks about endings. And clouds.

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

I am delighted to have 3 new poems featured in Waxwing’s latest issue! Go give them a read and check out the rest of this stunner of an issue 💫🪶

[Waxwing Magazine @WaxwingMag]

Our new issue is officially live! Please read and share these wonderful pieces!

https://t.co/WZtpdOSMCn

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

Grateful to @storySouth for publishing a core poem from my current MS in progress! Go give it, and the rest of this amazing issue, a read! https://t.co/lMPJD6P2vI

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

Thanks again to @PoetryShore for publishing this piece in their winter issue! Be sure to check out the rest of the issue at https://t.co/zjNqTqmGAg

[L. A. Johnson @LA_Johnson_]

Thrilled to share another new Larry Levis poem, "Prayer" in this week's @NewYorker!

Stay tuned for Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis, forthcoming from @GraywolfPress in 2026 @JeffShotts1

[Keaton Patti @KeatonPatti]

Jerry: I'm in Nosferatu's thrall.
George: You're in his thrall?
Jerry: I'm in his thrall!
George: Get out of his thrall.
Jerry: You can't get out of a thrall. That's the thing with a thrall! You're never through with the thrall!
KRAMER BARGES IN
Kramer: Well, I got the plague!

[Sarah Osment @sm_osment]

thought we could use this by James Tate a little early this year

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

@OkaforMichael_ @PoetryShore @HanaWiderman Thank you for the kind words! And a beautiful poem! Glad to be able to share this issue alongside you 🙏🏼

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

I have a new poem out in @PoetryShore latest issue. Go check it out!

[The Shore @PoetryShore]

IT’S HERE ❄️ WINTER ISSUE 24 HAS ARRIVED! Get cozy, grab a warm beverage, and enjoy. We hope you love these poems as much as we do. ❄️

https://t.co/DJhAlU2Wbr

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

@GillyWhite8 @susanlleary One of my favorites of his. That ending 🤌🏼

[Gillian White @GillyWhite8]

Frank O’Hara, “Nocturne” (August 8, 1955)

[Samuel A. Adeyemi @samuelpoetry]

Guess we've made it a tradition for this poem to resurface at the end of each November. Love it.

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

An old friend of mine is finally making his amazing short film available to the public in about 15 or so minutes. Go check out Where The Bullets Go 🐦‍⬛ for some southern horror.

https://t.co/JNf33OJmUV

[Noah Falck @nofalck]

from MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012)
by Mary Ruefle

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

Beyond honored to have a poem selected for the 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize. It's an amalgamation of Bachelard's ideas in Poetics of Space and a conversation I had with my former teacher and friend, the talented poet and translator Joshua Weiner.

https://t.co/FYfwGYUfTw

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

I've long thought, & other scholars w/ similar research interests have made arguments for this as well, that Faulkner is contrary to Proust in that he does not approach art as capable of embodying experience. Doris Betts too writes that “[t]here’s so much you can’t save by writing down.” It's a very big question but one wonders if there is something about the South, Southern memory and literary practice as a means of containing memory that is basically anti-Proust.

[Bill @wjneumire]

"The poet speaks on the threshold of being."

Bachelard

[Derek Ellis @aDerekEllis]

@Lukesrant @WaxwingMag Thank you, Luke 🙏🏼✊🏼