S298. Writing the Disaster: The Poetics of Extremity
Saturday, March 30, 2019
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Participants
Matthew Cooperman is the author of five books of poetry, including, most recently, Spool, and the text-and-image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World. A collaboration—NOS with Aby Kaupang—is forthcoming. A poetry coeditor of Colorado Review, he is Professor of English at Colorado State University
Nicole Cooley is the author of a novel and six books of poems, including most recently Of Marriage. She is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY.
Aby Kaupang is the author of NOS, disorder not otherwise specified, Disorder 299.00, & Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me. She holds master’s degrees in both CW & Occupational Therapy & served as Fort Collins' Poet Laureate from '15–'17.
Matt Rasmussen is the author of Black Aperture, which won the 2013 Walt Whitman Award and was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the 2015 Holmes Poetry Prize from Princeton University, he is a founding editor of the independent poetry press Birds, LLC.