Ejo

Derick Burleson is also the author of Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry, among other journals. A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Burleson teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks and lives with his partner and daughter in Two Rivers, Alaska.