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Jim Coppoc

About Me

Just started this. Give me some days to work on things, and I promise the site will be rockin'.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/11/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/jimcoppoc
Band Members: Jim Coppoc is an award-winning teacher, writer, and performer; Lecturer in English at Iowa State University; and an Adjunct Instructor in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. In addition to his creative and scholarly efforts, Coppoc has spent most of his life exploring the many media performance art, having worked as musician, actor, stand-up comic, network radio DJ, and performance poet. Marc Smith, founder of Slam poetry, has called him "one of the new breed giving poetry new breath."

Coppoc has published poetry, fiction, nonfiction, history and criticism in dozens of literary journals and anthologies, including The Cortland Review, Barbaric Yawp, Tryst, the Poetry21 supplement to the Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, and The Best of Chicago Poetry. Among Coppoc's awards are runner-up for the 2004 Frieda Stein Fenster Award for Millenial Poetry and a nomination for a Farrago Zoo Award in the category "Best International Performer." Coppoc is the author of Blood, Sex & Prayer (Chicago: Fractal Edge Press, 2005) and the chapbook Bearing the Pall (Pittsburgh: One Small Bird Press, 2007), and he is currently working on the manuscript for Reliquary, a book of Fusion Poetry.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

PITTSBURGH PEOPLE--I need your help!!!

I’ve got a reading April 11, and I’d like you to be there. I’d also like all your friends to be there. And all your friends’ friends. And I need you all to buy books. :)I&rs...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:50:00 GMT

Obama

Odd that my second political post EVER on this page is also my second in the past three weeks, but this is important.  It’s about time somebody on the national scene said something real.&nb...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:50:00 GMT

Iowa Marriage Amendment

I don't normally post politics on the poetry blog, but this is important.My pal Chelsea knows stuff. I listen to her. You should too...________For all the shit I've been talking about the anti-gays,...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:16:00 GMT

IOWA PEOPLE--THIS THURSDAY!!!

This Thursday, February 28, at 7 pm, the M-Shop in Ames will host the biggest, bestest,spoken-word event EVER at ISU. E.G. Bailey--founder of the National Spoken-WordCoalition, president of the Minne...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:27:00 GMT

Pittsburgh People!!!

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------From: Courtney LoraDate: Dec 13, 2007 7:53 PMCome hear poet Jim CoppocMost Wanted Fine Art Gallery5015 Penn Ave. PittsburghDecember 18th at 8:00 pmT...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:30:00 GMT

CHICAGO!!!

I've been trying to limit the number of readings I do in most markets while waiting for my new book to come out, but my BS&P publisher called, and I can't say no...Wednesday, November 14Fractal Edge P...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:38:00 GMT

Don’t Forget The Jim!!!

KADDISHHosted By: Jim CoppocWhen: Friday Oct 12, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: 4th Street Theatre216 4th StreetDes Moines, IA 50309United StatesDescription:Jim Coppoc Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:25:00 GMT

TIC Reading

WHEN: Saturday October 6th at 8pmWHAT: TalkingImageConnection and the Soap Factory present "Para-Sites: What's In Your Space?" a reading ABOUT WHAT: about place and its associations in response to th...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:11:00 GMT

Kaddish.

_____Kaddishat the 4th Street TheatreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: 12 October 2007Time: 8 p.m.Place: 4th Street Theatre, 216 4th Street, Des MoinesCost: $8.00 advance/ $10.00 at the doorTickets avail...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:07:00 GMT

Coppoc's Rules of Poetry

Finally I have a student who listens...Coppoc's Rules of Poetry
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:58:00 GMT