Wyn Cooper

Wyn Cooper (author page at Amazon) is the author of four collections of poetry: Chaos Is the New Calm (2010), Postcards from the Interior (2005), The Way Back (2000), and The Country of Here Below (1987). His poems appear in twenty-five anthologies of contemporary poetry. He has taught at Bennington and Marlboro colleges, as well as at the Frost Place Festival of Poetry, where he serves on the advisory board. He also helps to run the Brattleboro Literary Festival in Vermont.He has written songs with Sheryl Crow, David Broza, Jody Redhage, and David Baerwald. His second CD with Madison Smartt Bell, Postcards Out of the Blue, was released in 2008. Their songs can be heard on six television shows. He lives in Vermont and works for the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, a think tank run by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. His website is www.wyncooper.com. (updated 5/2010)

Extra-credit trivia for fans of Wyn’s poetry: having come across The Country of Here Below in a used bookstore, Sheryl Crow used his poem “Fun” as the basis for her smash hit “All I Wanna Do.”

Buy Wyn Cooper’s work at Amazon.com:

Chaos is the New Calm
Postcards from the Interior
Secret Address
The Country of Here Below
The Way Back

AGNI has published the following work by Wyn Cooper:

•Euronymous
•The Life of the Mind
•Mockingbird
•Monkey, Mirror, Troll, Bush
•Monkey, Mirror, Troll, Bush
•No One Knows What Tomorrow Is Called
•Sophie Cabot Black’s The Misunderstanding of Nature