Darren Wershler
Darren Wershler, also known as Darren Wershler-Henry, is a Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic.
Wershler 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, both volumes of Seven Pages Missing, the collected works of Steve McCaffery, Lip Service by Bruce Andrews, and Eunoia by Christian Bök.
Wershler is the youngest poet discussed in Marjorie Perloff's 21st Century Modernism, which analyzes his second book of poetry, the tapeworm foundry. 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 at Concordia 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, Broken Pencil and This Magazine.
He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Works
Poetry
Update apostrophe the tapeworm foundry- ''NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs''
Non-fiction
Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of TypewritingThe Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac FREE as in speech and beer: open source, peer-to-peer and the economics of the online revolutionCommonSpace: Beyond Virtual Community Internet Directory 2001 The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Online Shopping for Canadians- ''Internet Directory 2000 ''