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Poems

Poetry by Derek Sheffield in books, online, and in broadsides.

Poetry by Derek Sheffield “displays a poet working at the top of his talent, creating an often radiant display of crystalline moments drawn or filtered out of the ordinary passages of life,” says renowned poet Eamon Grennan. Follow a link below to read some of Derek’s poems, or scroll down for all poems:

Poetry from Books

Poetry Broadsides

Cascadia Field Guide

Not For Luck, Poems by Derek Sheffield

Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, co-edited by Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Derek Sheffield

Through the Second Skin, Poems by Derek Sheffield

Poems from Books

Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry

Not for Luck

The Wren and the Jet at a Research Forest near Fort Knox, Seventy-One Years since the Bombing of Hiroshima, Eight Months since the Photo of a Three-Year-Old Syrian Boy Facedown on a Turkish Beach, His Red Shirt, His Blue Shorts

Fish Like These

The Science of Spirit Lake

She Gathers Rocks

Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy

What Will Keep Us

Through the Second Skin

Ornithology 101

Near Wild Grasses

Getting It Done

Sometimes I Risk

Darwin’s Eyes

POETRY cover

Poems Available Online

Gwarlingo

For Those Who Would See

Poetry Daily

Timid As Any Herd Animal

Contextual Education

Verse Daily

Ornithology 101

The Los Angeles Review

Poetry

Plant-Human Quarterly

At the Log Decomposition Site in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a Visitation

A Response to A Pair of Forest Plots

Rattle

Exactly What Needs Saying

Shenandoah

The Science of Spirit Lake

The Empty Road Full of People

Orion

Delicious Apocalypse

10 Ways to Make Your House a Home

About Place Journal

Two Poems: Little Song and Still Time

Two Poems: What Happens and Her Yarn

Terrain.org

Abortion Wish (with audio)

Two Poems: The One We’re Spiraling Into and Nest Site (with audio)

Report from America Auténtico, with translation by Rhina Espaillat (with audio)

Broadside by Derek Sheffield: Ornithology 101

Poetry Broadsides

Stewards at Work

Timid as Any Herd Animal

Ornithology 101

Firefighters Walk into Mountain Sports