Derek Sheffield
Derek Sheffield's book of poems, Through the Second Skin (Orchises, 2013), was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Orion and The Southern Review. He lives with his family in the foothills of the Cascades near Leavenworth, WA, and he is the poetry editor of Terrain.org.
Reading List
The Skookum Indian
since 1921, Wenatchee, WA Above the Dollar Tree those dark eyes shift side to side all day and all night. Now and then one of them winks. He’s a giant motorized head, this Indian of ours, with a cartoon nose …
The Empty Road Full of People
Wenatchee, WA Everything looks right in this photo of the 1910 Fourth of July parade taken from a rooftop near Palouse. Black and white world of hand-lettered windows, men in hats on crowded walks, and power poles striding toward a …
The Science of Spirit Lake
It’s the water’s pulse through line and rod that judders in my hands, in fish after fish whip-thrashed into air, into arms and body and day’s heat, all day, day after day, all summer, and into the net where she …