Wyn
Cooper's most recent book is Secret Address , a chapbook of postcard
poems (Chapiteau Press, 2002). His earlier books are The Way Back
(White Pine Press, 2000), and The Country of Here Below (Ahsahta
Press, 1987). His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared
in Poetry, Orion, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares , and numerous
other journals. His poems are included in 20 anthologies of contemporary
poetry. In 1993 a poem from his first collection was turned into
lyrics for Sheryl Crow's Grammy-winning song "All I Wanna Do."
In June 2003, Gaff Music released Forty Words for Fear , a CD
of songs based on poems and lyrics by Cooper, set to music by
novelist Madison Smartt Bell, and performed by both of them. The
CD has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition and World Café,
and has been written about in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine,
The New York Observer, Philadelphia Weekly, and elsewhere. Wyn
Cooper has taught at University of Utah, Bennington College, Marlboro
College, and at the Frost Place Festival of Poetry. He also served
as editor of Quarterly West . He lives in Halifax, Vermont and
helps run the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
For
more information on Wyn Cooper visit: www.wyncooper.com
BOA
books by Wyn Cooper:
Postcards from the Interior
