DEREK FENNER

 
     
 
 
 
 
         
 
 
Derek Fenner is a graduate of the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics MFA Program and currently resides in Lowell, MA above Page’s clock.  He is the director of “Unlocking the Light”, a federal grant for a program he helped design to incorporate art in the professional development of the Department of Youth Services in Massachusetts.  Previous to this, he began an art mentorship program and taught art to juveniles in a maximum security lock-down facility for the State of Massachusetts.  Some of the work he did with these students was chronicled at the Rhys Gallery from February 10th - March 4th, 2006 and called Temporary Walls: The Visual Voices of Detained Youth.

He is the author of My Favorite Color is Red: Experiments with Lines 1999-2005.  Read Ron Silliman’s Review

 

Derek has also finished his portraiture series: 100 People You Should Know.  View his online gallery

He also runs the Union Square Poetry Series,a bi-monthly Saturday reading at P.A.'s Lounge in Somerville, MA with Daniel Bouchard.

Read selections from Derek’s unpublished collage novel—I No Longer Believe in the Sun; Love Letters to Kiki Courage in Action Yes, where the protagonist, also named Derek Fenner, writes a local newscaster a series of letters that spell out an apocalyptic terrorist plot. The fictional Fenner is a modern Polyneices with an occult knowledge of religion and a propensity to fall in love with propaganda and “a sublime set of pearly white chompers”. 

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