FACULTY

Assistant Professor. B.A., English, Colgate University; M.A., Creative Writing, University of Colorado; Ph.D, English, Ohio University.

Professor Cooperman teaches poetry writing workshops, ecopoetics and literature courses. He is the author of A Sacrificial Zinc, which won the Lena Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), Surge, winner of the Wick Chapbook Prize from Kent State (Kent State U., 1998) and Word About James (Phylum Press, 2005.) His poems have appeared in such journals as LIT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, EPR,ecopoetics, Colorado Review, Chicago Review, ACM, Gulf Coast and Quarterly West. Essays, interviews and provocations have appeared in Iowa Review, Rolling Stock, Weber Studies, Web Conjunctions, The Writer's Chronicle and Field, among others. A founding editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman was a Fine Arts Work Center Fellow at Provincetown. He is currently at work on a critical study in ecopoetics, Green Horizons, a new book of poems, and a book of interviews in contemporary American poetry and poetics, Questioning the Witness.

Web Site: matthewbcooperman.com
Phone: 491-6843
Email address: Matthew.Cooperman@Colostate.Edu