Living Writers: Jasmine Bailey, Matthew Cooperman, and Vivek Narayanan
Today's Events | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Jasmine V. Bailey is the author of Alexandria, winner of the Central New York Book Award, Disappeared, and That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, a translation of Silvina López Medin’s Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar. She is the winner of Michigan Quarterly Review’s Lawrence Goldstein Prize, New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize, Ruminate Magazine’s VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and the Longleaf Press Chapbook Prize. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Argentina, an Olive B. O’Connor fellow at Colgate University, and a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.Matthew Cooperman is a poet, educator, editor and ecocritic, 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. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press. A Founding Editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman received his PhD in English from Ohio University. He 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.Vivek Narayanan is the author of the poetry collection: After (New York Review Books/HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.Support for this event, which will be hosted by Peter Balakian, is provided by the Parshley Christ Endowment for Living Writers. The course and program are led by faculty in the Department of English and Creative Writing with generous support from the Olive B. O'Connor Fund as well as the President and the Provost/Dean of the Faculty. A signature program of Colgate University since 1980, Living Writers is a master class in how works of literature come to be.
