Ecopoetry Reading w/ Sage Marshall & Matthew Cooperman

Ecopoetry Reading w/ Sage Marshall & Matthew Cooperman

Join Sage Marshall and Matthew Cooperman for a free poetry reading and book signing at Wolverine Publick House! Both Marshall and Cooperman engage in different forms of eco-poetics as they investigate emotional, societal, and cultural landscapes of the West.About CoopermanA 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and other books. A Founding Editor of the journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman is Co-Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children. More info at http://matthewcooperman.orgAbout the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless"Our job is to be both epic and tiny," Matthew Cooperman writes in this powerful book-length poem full of turns and twists on the American long poem road. Cooperman meditates on and tracks our imperiled American democracy, and the precarious future it forecasts as he twines the political world with the challenges and beauty of family life. In the face of crises, he affirms the meanings of love and the ways in which the language of poetry can bring us truths that are shattering and brilliant. -Peter Balakian, author of Ozone Journal, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeAbout Sage:

Sage Marshall is a poet, essayist, and outdoors journalist from southwest Colorado. He has lived across the U.S. and currently resides in Western Montana. Marshall is a contributing writer and former editor of Field & Stream. His creative work has been featured in publications such as The Missouri Review, swamp pink, Alta Journal, and elsewhere. Echolocation (Middle Creek, 2024), his debut poetry collection, weaves the landscapes and ecologies of the American West against themes of violence, adolescence, and beauty. Check out more of his writing and drop him a line at www.SageMarshall.com.

About Echolocation:

"In Echolocation, Sage Marshall has crafted poems of brilliant reflection, finding his way through questions we all must ask of coming into our own, even when answers can be held but briefly. Marshall’s poems are vulnerable and inspired, acutely aware of both the beauty we inherit of the world and the pain we inflict on ourselves and others. This is a remarkable debut."

—Erin Block, Author of How You Walk Alone in the Dark, winner of the Colorado Book Award

"Tough and bloody, full of the grit of real life, of lives lived close to the land, lives lived in struggle and brotherly competition and the great stakes of father and son relationships, Sage Marshall’s debut, Echolocation, still manages to be a book of deep tenderness, of love and honor and the wisdom of hard years and the natural world."

—Joe Wilkins, author of Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award