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