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Matthew Coopeman [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Fort Collins, CO
Colorado US
Email: 
coopermanz@yahoo.com
Bio: 

Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), as well as Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move(Counterpath Press, 2011) and other books. Numerous chapbooks exist in addition, including Disorder 299.00(Essay Press, w/Aby Kaupang, 2015). A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and co-poetry editor of Colorado Review, Cooperman teaches at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their two children. . http://matthewcooperman.org [2]

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
New Haven
Raised in: 
Redwood City, CA
California
Website: 
http://matthewcooperman.org [2]
Prizes won: 

Jovanovich Prize, University of Colorado

Utah Wilderness Society Prize

O. Marvin Lewis Essay Prize (Weber State)

INTRO Award (Academy of American Poets)

Lena Miles Wever Todd Prize (for A Sacrificial Zinc)

New Measure Prize (for Spool)

Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize (for Little Spool)

Education: 
Ohio University
University of Colorado Boulder
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/matthew_coopeman [2] http://matthewcooperman.org