Background
Cooper, Wyn was born on January 2, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of William Wendell and Maree Edith Cooper.
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Postcards from the Interior is a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. The first section, “Postcards from Vermont,” is composed of poems about Vermont towns and historical landmarks. The second section, “Postcards from the Interior,” stretches to include poems from far-flung places, real and imagined. Adroit at juxtaposing the exterior weather of landscapes and the interior weather of the human condition, Cooper writes poetry with the heft of a Romantic meditation and the breezy ease of contemporary song lyrics. Wyn Cooper has published three previous poetry collections. A poem from his first book was turned into lyrics for Sheryl Crow’s Grammy-winning song “All I Wanna Do.” He lives in Battleboro, Vermont.
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Chaos is the New Calm expands the parameters of the sonnet form, putting rhymes in unusual places, inventing new stanza structures, and addressing a variety of subject matter ranging from travelogue to inner monologue, from social commentary to solitary musing. These poems are alive with sound, rhythm, and lyric insights into the world. Wyn Cooper’s poem Fun” was adapted by Sheryl Crow for her hit song All I Wanna Do.” He collaborates on music and spoken word with novelist Madison Smartt Bell. Cooper is co-organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. He consults for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. From Verse Wisconsin Online: These poems move along at an energetic pace often progressing by plays on words and a kind of free association logic or, to put it another way, a sort of six-degrees-of-separation” type of logic between both people and things.”
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Cooper, Wyn was born on January 2, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of William Wendell and Maree Edith Cooper.
Bachelor in English, University Utah, 1979. Master of Arts in English, Hollins College, 1981.
He has taught at the University of Utah, Bennington College, Marlboro College, and at The Frost Place Festival of Poetry. His most recent book is Chaos is the New Calm (BOA Editions, 2010. His earlier books are Postcards from the Interior (BOA Editions, 2005),, and
Cooper"s poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Orion, AGNI, Crazyhorse, and Ploughshares and are included in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry.
One of his poems, Fun, was used for the lyrics of the Sheryl Crow song, "All I Wanna Do". Crow"s producer Bill Bottrell discovered Cooper"s poetry book The Country of Here Below in Cliff"s Books, a Pasadena, California used bookstore.
Bottrell adapted Fun into the lyrics for her song when Crow couldn"t come up with usable lyrics—earning Cooper considerable royalties, and helping to publicise his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints. He also wrote lyrics for a fictional band in Madison Smartt Bell"s novel, Anything Goes.
The songs were put to music by Bell, recorded and produced by Don Dixon and released as 40 Words for Fear in 2003.
The second Bell and Cooper cd, Postcards Out of the Blue, was based in part on Cooper"s book Postcards from the Interior. Their songs have been used on 6 television shows. Cooper has also written and recorded songs with David Broza, David Baerwald, and Jody Redhage.
Cooper has served as editor of Quarterly West and recently worked for the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, a think tank run by the Poetry Foundation of Chicago.
Cooper is one of the organizers of the Brattleboro Literary Festival in Brattleboro, Vermont. He currently resides in Halifax, Vermont, where he works as a freelance editor of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and memoir.
His website is www.wyncooper.com.
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Member American Society of Composers (Pop Music award 1996), Poetry Society of America, Academy American Poets (associate).