Poetry Reading: Wyn Cooper & Martha Collins

Wyn Cooper has published six books of poetry, including, most recently, The Unraveling. His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, as well as in 28 anthologies of contemporary poetry, including A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker. Many of his poems have been turned into songs, including by recording artists Sheryl Crow, David Broza, and Madison Smartt Bell. His first novel, Way Out West, was published in 2022.

Martha Collins‘s eleventh book of poetry is Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022); her tenth, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Collins has received numerous other awards, including the New England Poetry Club’s 2025 Golden Rose Award. She has also published five volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed, 2023), and co-edited a number of anthologies, including Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries, with Kevin Prufer (Graywolf, 2017). Collins founded the UMass Boston creative writing program and later served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. Word Work: Essays, Reviews, Reflections was published by Tiger Bark in 2025, and Like Her Body the World: Early Selected Poems is forthcoming from Unbound Edition in spring 2027.

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