Darren Wershler, also known as Darren Wershler-Henry, (b. 1966) is a Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic. Wershler was the senior

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of Coach House Books between 1997 and 2002, where the works he edited included several highly acclaimed books of contemporary innovative poetry, including ''Fidget'' by Kenneth Goldsmith (2000), both volumes of ''Seven Pages Missing'', the collected works of Steve McCaffery (2000, 2002), ''Lip Service'' by

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(2001), and ''

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'' by Christian Bök (2001). Wershler is the youngest poet discussed in Marjorie Perloff's ''21st Century Modernism'', which analyzes his second book of poetry, ''the tapeworm foundry'' (a

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finalist in 2000). He has instructed courses in Communication Studies at York University and Wilfrid Laurier University and currently is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature (Tier 2) at

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. He has authored several books about the Internet, technology and culture, as well as occasional essays on pop culture for newspapers and magazines such as ''

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'', '' Broken Pencil'' and '' This Magazine''. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Works

Poetry

* ''Update (with Bill Kennedy)'' * ''apostrophe (with Bill Kennedy)'' * ''the tapeworm foundry'' * ''NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs''

Non-fiction

* ''Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg'' * ''The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting'' * ''The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac (with Hal Niedzviecki)'' * ''FREE as in speech and beer: open source, peer-to-peer and the economics of the online revolution'' * ''CommonSpace: Beyond Virtual Community (with

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)'' * ''Internet Directory 2001 (with Scott Mitchell)'' * ''The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Online Shopping for Canadians (with Preston Gralla)'' * ''Internet Directory 2000 (with Scott Mitchell)''

Articles

* ''Return From Without: Louis Riel and Liminal Space'' in Sakolsky, Ron and James Koehnline, ''Gone to Croatan'', Autonomedia, 1993

External links

*
dw: Darren Wershler's home pageRecords of Darren Wershler-Henry and Kootenay School of Writing fonds are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
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