b. 1948 Detroit, raised on Thornapple River. Six books: Quiet Lives, foreword by Allen Ginsberg, 1983; On The Bridge, 1986; Fragments from The Stars, 1990; Coming Home, 1993; Silences for Love, 1998; Turn the Wheel, 2003. Seventh book, Moonlight Rose in Blue: Selected Poems forthcoming. 1988 Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters. Editor & publisher, Big Scream poetry magazine, 1974-present, Nada Poems, 1988, and Sunflowers and Locomotives: Songs for Allen, elegies for Allen Ginsberg, 1998. Co-editor of Demotic Fire: the postbeat poets, still unpublished. Teaches Women’s Studies, Shakespeare, drama, and creative writing at Grand Rapids Community College. Archive, David Cope papers, at U of Michigan Special Collections Library. Married 38 years to Suzanne, 3 grown kids, kayaker and gardener.

Song of the Owashtanong: Grand Rapids Poetry in the 21st Century (Ridgeway Press, 2013), Turn the Wheel (Humana Press, 2003), Silences for Love (Humana Press, 1997), Coming Home (Humana Press, 1993), Fragments from the Stars (Humana Press, 1990), On the Bridge (Humana Press, 1986), Quiet Lives (Humana Press, 1983)

Masks of Six Decades (Nada Press, 2010)

Heaven Bone, Lame Duck, Napalm Health Spa Report, Rattapallax, Sierra