Poetry Project: Jeff Derksen November 9, 2007
Jeff Derksen is a poet and a founding member the Kootenay School of Writing. His poetry has been anthologized in The Canadian Long Poem Anthology, East of Main and Verse: Postmodern Poetry and Language Writing. His most recent book of poetry is Transnational Muscle Cars (Talon 2003), preceded by Dwell (1994) and Down Time (1990) which won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award at the BC Book Prizes. His work also was included in The Gertrude Stein Anthology of Innovative North American Poetry: 1993. He is a contributing editor to XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (Minneapolis) and West Coast Line. he...






