Derick Wade Burleson (September 9, 1963 – December 29, 2016) was an American academic and writer. He was the author of Never Night (Marick Press 2008). His first collection of poems, Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991–94, won the 2000

Felix Pollak Felix Pollak (November 11, 1909 – November 19, 1987) was an American librarian, translator, and poet. Pollak was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1909 to Geza Pollak and Helene Schneider Pollak. A Jew and liberal anti-fascist, he studied law ...

Prize in Poetry. He was also the recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review,

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip ...

, Poetry, and many other journals.¹ He lived and taught English in Rwanda in the two years leading up to the genocide which took place in 1994. A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Burleson taught creative writing and literature at the

University of Alaska Fairbanks The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for cla ...

, and lived with his daughter in

Two Rivers, Alaska Two Rivers is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. It lies between mile 13 (the Little Chena River) and mile 25 (the Chena River) on the Chena Hot Springs Ro ...

until his death.University of Alaska Anchorage Web Site.. Retrieved April 13, 2009.

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1963 births 2016 deaths American male poets American poets American expatriates in Rwanda People from Alfalfa County, Oklahoma People from Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska Poets from Alaska University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty {{Alaska-bio-stub