Darren Wershler-Henry

Darren Wershler-Henry

Darren Wershler-Henry (1966 -) is a Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic. A former grave digger, he was the senior editor 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 Bruce Andrews (2001), and "Eunoia" by Christian Bök (2002). Wershler-Henry is the youngest poet discussed in Marjorie Perloff's "21st Century Modernism", which analyzes his second book of poetry, "the tapeworm foundry" (a Trillium Book Award finalist in 2000). He has instructed courses at York University and currently is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. 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 "Brick (magazine)", "Broken Pencil" and "This Magazine".

He lives in Toronto.

Works

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

* "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 Mark Surman)"
* "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)"

External links

* [http://alienated.net/dwh/ dw=h: Darren Wershler-Henry's home page]
* [http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=1447&ct_id=1267&f_id=286/ Darren Wershler-Henry's faculty page at Wilfrid Laurier University]
* [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/wershler-henry/ Darren Wershler-Henry's page at the Electronic Poetry Center]
* [http://www.chbooks.com/archives/online_books/nicholodeon/ e-book: NICHOLODEON]
* [http://commons.ca/articles/fulltext.shtml?x=347/ e-book: CommonSpace]
* [http://freeasinspeechandbeer.com/ e-book: FREE as in speech and beer]
* [http://www.ubu.com/ubu/wershler_tapeworm.html/ e-book: the tapeworm foundry]
* [http://www.apostropheengine.ca/ the apostrophe engine]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/andsometimesy/pastshows.html?episode5/ Darren Wershler-Henry interview and reading on CBC Radio program "And Sometimes Y"]
* [http://www.thecontrarians.ca/the%20contrarians%20ep.7.mp3 Darren Wershler-Henry interview on CBC Radio program "The Contrarians"]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12900006 Darren Wershler-Henry interview on NPR Weekend Edition]
* [http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2005/11/antiques.php/ Darren Wershler-Henry profile in "This Magazine"]
* [http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/form-and-content Darren Wershler-Henry profile in "Taddle Creek" Magazine]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/04/09/070409crbo_books_acocella Review of The Iron Whim in "The New Yorker"]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Glenn.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Review of The Iron Whim in "The New York Times Review of Books"]


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