Our Mission
Cooper Dillon is an independent poetry press founded on promoting and maintaining the values which make poetry a high art. Through the publication and distribution of full-length collections and chapbooks, our intention is to nurture the poet and reader who finds joy in aesthetic, beauty, honesty and intimacy.
Coming in Fall 2009
We are excited to announce the first Cooper Dillon chapbook projects:
Gary L. McDowell's They Speak of Fruit & Jill Alexander Essbaum's The Devastation.
Gary L. McDowell's They Speak of Fruit & Jill Alexander Essbaum's The Devastation.
Sterling VA San Diego CA
Jill Alexander Essbaum's publications include the full-length collections Heaven, Harlot, and Necropolis, and a chapbook of sonnets, Oh Forbidden. Her poems have appeared in religious journals, hoity-toity journals, online journals, formalist journals, and erotic publications. She is obsessed with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, my five cats, puns, sex, Old Time Radio, and God. And: Words. An an associate editor for the online journal Anti-, and a blogger for the Best American Poetry blog, she's presently at work on a novel vaguely based on the time she spent living in Zürich, Switzerland. She believes most firmly that wit trumps irony, clever beats disaffected, and, in all things, sincerity is key.
Gary L. McDowell's poems have appeared recently in Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Front Porch, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill, The Southeast Review, and others. He is the author of the chapbook, The Blueprint (Pudding House, 2005), and the co-editor, with F. Daniel Rzicznek, of the forthcoming anthology, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice
(Rose Metal Press, 2010). He has been nominated several times for a
Pushcart Prize and teaches at Western Michigan University where he is
the poetry editor of Third Coast and the Assistant Editor of New Issues Poetry & Prose.
