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Derek Gromadzki

Derek Gromadzki
Derek Gromadzki holds MFAs from Brown University and the University of Iowa, where he is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature. His poetry has appeared in such publications as BOAAT, Conjunctions, Sonora Review, and Wave Composition. With Forrest Gander, he recently finished editing Alice, Iris, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu (New Directions 2016), which includes his translations, with Sayuri Okamoto, of excerpts from Gōzō Yoshimasu’s Naked Memos. He is currently lecturer in Italian at Washington University in St. Louis.

Escapement

By Derek Gromadzki
Poetry•Vol. XXVIII No. 2 (Summer 2015)

Some polish               to  sliptoe    against the  grain                    that  rosewood  has                                       when                    it’s  a  box  and                    kidnap       the   little   time   it takes  to  solder  two  times together in a locket for lockaway seasons: a     pocket watch      and inside                  the  insides  of forget-me-nots                                     a    nil-ado        duet                                     for dauphine hands                                     tsk-tsk… [Read More]

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