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Derrick Austin

About

Derrick Austin is the author of the poetry collections Tenderness, winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and Trouble the Water. His next collection, This Elegance, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2026. New poems have recently appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, and the Sewanee Review.

Articles

Issue 126, Fall 2024

Writing about Paintings

A poem by Derrick Austin

By Derrick Austin