Inspired by visits to Louisiana state prisons—where MacArthur fellow C.D. Wright accompanied portrait photographer Deborah Luster—One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the corrosive…
Investigative journalism becomes the poet’s realm as C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright…
Casting Deep Shade is a passionate, poetic exploration of humanity’s shared history with the beech tree. Before Wright’s unexpected death in 2016, she was deeply engaged in years of ambling…
…sapience. “Memory is about the future, not the past,” she reminds, and offers poems as maps: counting teeth and time, marking punctuation and punishment, and remembering disappeared histories. Inside her…
…“Between Beaver and Sappho” from Muddy Matterhorn, with musical accompaniment from Reed Turchi: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Heather-McHugh-Between-Beaver-and-Sappho.
…“Bullet Points” from The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition: ARVE Error: src mismatch url: https://youtu.be/yHUVFOfT4Hk src in: https://www.youtube-nocookie.
…about it, I don’t know if this comes through, is that it’s about the soul and eternity and time, and at this moment it’s about a soul- Ryo Yamaguchi (29:04):…
…in other disciplines or students who are reading and writing via a required class. It’s great to be immersed in a community so committed to poetry. CCP: Please tell us…
…commercials and movie work, they were like, “If you don’t speak Spanish… You are so ethnic looking.” Rachel McKibbens (06:46): And I’m like the fucking whitest Mexican in my…
…evening you will be given the opportunity to become a part of the poetry by donating to secure and advance C.D.’s poetic legacy for generations to come.
The Wild and Precious Life series presents an online reading with Alison C. Rollins, Jacqueline Balderrama, Dominique Christina, and C. Russell Price. Watch here: https://us02web.
…From the organizers: Online writing workshops led by: Alison C. Rollins SWEETNESS POETICS Sundays in July 7/4 7/11 7/18 7/25 3:00 PM EDT Suggested donation: $20 per session Register here: http://www.costuracreative.
…days, and again 2 hours, before the workshop begins. Registration cost is donation-based (suggested $20 per session), and separate registration is required for each weekly session. Register here: https://www.
…link to the Zoom registration will be sent to your email 2 days, and again 2 hours, before the workshop begins. Suggested donation of $20 per session. Register here: https://www.
…days, and again 2 hours, before the workshop begins. Registration cost is donation-based (suggested $20 per session), and separate registration is required for each weekly session. Register here: https://www.
Copper Canyon Press looks forward to attending the in-person 2023 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference February 7–10. Here’s how to find the Press, our booth at #AWP24, and…
From the organizers: “The Community of Writers is honored to present a five-week intensive series on the life and work of poet C.D. Wright taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest…
…join us for our reading with Shangyang Fang, C. Francis Fisher and Charles Kell with an introduction by Chris Hosea.” Register here for the in-person reading: http://events.
…to the the Quarantine Reading Series are sliding scale beginning at $5.00 Suggested donation is $15.00.
…public reading in the auditorium of the Sharon Springs Central School. Afterward, you’ll be able to meet the poets in the lobby, purchase a copy of one of their books…