Publications, Events, & Doings

• Forthcoming September 2020: Committal, Vegetarian Alcoholic Press

• Forthcoming soon: spare change, Finishing Line Press

• Poem in Poems in the Aftermath, an Anthology, Indolent Books, 2018

• Poems appear in Poems in the Aftermath & What Rough Beast, projects for Indolent Books

• The Feminist Wire

• Utterance, a Journal

• VoiceCatcher , & Here

• Prometheus Dreaming

• phoebe

• 433

• Cathexis Northwest, poems & interview

• Stone of Madness Press

• Review, bell lap by Laura Winberry, Dovecote Magazine

• Review, Beshrew by Danielle Pafunda, Utterance: A Journal

• Review, Anxious Attachments by Beth Alvarado, Utterance: A Journal

• Review, Love Dream with Television: Poems, by Hannah Ensor, The Rumpus

• Verseweavers, Oregon Poetry Association, Spring 2016 (2nd Place, Experimental Poetry)

• Interview, Beth Alvarado, The Rumpus

• Interview, Paulann Petersen, High Desert Journal

• Interview, Kate Lebo, High Desert Journal, Issue 19

• Science Fairies - A Pop-Up Poetry Fair, Art Share LA, AWP 2016

• Judge, 2019, 2020 Central Oregon Writers Guild Annual Creative Writing Contest, Non-Fiction/Poetry     

• Guest Reader, Spring Forth Poetry Event, April 21, 2016

• Guest Reader, Writing X Writers & OSU-Cascades @ Roundabout Books, November 8, 2017

• Guest Reader, Deschutes Public Library, March 11, 2018

• Twice Baked Tales: A Conversation with Beth Alvarado, Irene Cooper & Brigitte Lewis, Roundabout Books

• Moderator, Toward a Theory of the Self: A Conversation with Arianne Zwartjes & Beth Alvarado, Roundabout Books

• Co-Editor, The Stay Project

• Co-Founder,  Frank copywriting agency, with Laura Winberry & B Von Hoene

• Resume

  Forthcoming in March 2021: spare change, a full-length collection of poems from Finishing Line Press!

Irene Cooper’s debut poetry collection, Spare Change, is a book that holds at its center the multiplicities of grief (“permission to speak/to the open wound” of a dead brother, a family fractured by alcoholism, abuses of power, even the routine wonder of raising children) inside language that refuses sentimentality and is, instead, experiential. In a world where honesty is surprising (and figuratively, and sometimes literally, death-defying), here is a writer who insists on the truth, demanding that we attend to the turns, the edges, the possible slippages of individual words. It is work and it is worth it. Take heart in this daring. When I read these poems I feel I am in the presence of presence (“to believe/to loiter”) – which is to say the muck of it: love. – TC Tolbert