Publications & Doings

BOOKS, BOOK STUFF

• FOUND, Atmosphere Press, Winner, 2024 North Street Prize, Winning Writers; Finalist, 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Thriller Category; Finalist, 2021 Maxy Awards

• Reviews of FOUND: Kirkus; Gold Star Review, Literary Titan; Starred Review, Independent Book Review

• Interview, Literary Titan

• COMMITTAL, Vegetarian Alcoholic Press

• Read a Review of COMMITTAL

• COMMITTAL: An Interview with Irene Cooper by Jessica Caroline, JMWW

• spare change, Finishing Line Press, Finalist, STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY, Oregon Book Awards; Finalist, Hilary Tham Capital Collection at The Word Works

• Read a Review of spare change

• Interview: Oregon ArtsWatch

• playing with boxes: an interview with Irene Cooper about spare change

• Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon, 2020: Co-edited with Ellen Santasiero, cover art by Brigitte Lewis

ESSAYS & NONFICTION

• MarchFadness 80’s Edition, essay, “BUHM BUHM” (on One Hit Wonder “Tainted Love”)

• March Danceness, essay, NEVER BROKEN: THE PO(P)-ET(H)ICS OF GENRE FLAILING: IRENE COOPER ON JEWEL’S “INTUITION”

• Writers Resist, essay, “Beowulf”

• Flat Ink, hybrid essay, “Can You Hear Me Now?" 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominee

• Walled Women Magazine, essay, “The kindness of strangers”

• The Manifest-Station, essay, “Why don’t you talk to your sister?”

POEMS

• “in defense of the woman,” Anti-Heroin Chic

• “the first episode of the watchmen,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol 72 No. 2, Fall/Winter 2022

• “que será será,” Cosmic Double

• “AT THE CLUB HE ASKS IF YOU WANT TO DANCE AND YOU SAY, NO THANKS, BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR MY NEW POEM, I CALL IT OCEAN OF FIRE,” HAD

• “even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety

• “Crash in Sisters,” Denver Quarterly, Vol.55, No.1

• “vacuum,” Witness/The Black Mountain Institute, Spring 2021

• “No-vember,” Poems in the Aftermath, an Anthology, Indolent Books, 2018

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

• “pershing square via e5th street,” petrichor #19, Best of the Net Nominee

• The Feminist Wire

• VoiceCatcher

• Prometheus Dreaming

• “american dream,” a sonnet tiara, Prometheus Unbound, 2019

• “sometimes, in my perversity,” phoebe

• “i have unusual ideas,” streetcake

• “indifference belongs to the trees,” 433

• Cathexis Northwest, poems & interview

FICTION

• Aerogramme Center for Culture and the Arts, The Mobile Library, Volume 3, Issue 4: Time Capsule: Seniority, “Iris”

• TERSE, “Hilda Blessing”

• Last Girls Club, Winter Issue No. 4, “Blasé Femme”

• Stone of Madness Press, flash fiction, “Retreat”

• House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, Vol. 3, Climate Change Edition, 2021, short story, “Ungrounded”

REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

• Review, An Eye in Each Square by Lauren Camp, EcoTheo Collective

• Review, metabolics by Jessica E. Johnson, EcoTheo Review, June 2023

• Review, Morgan (A Lyric) by Boyer Rickel, Tinderbox Poetry Journal

• Review, Patterns of Orbit by Chloe N. Clark, The Rumpus

• Review, Curing Season: Artifacts by Kristine Langley Mahler, DIAGRAM 22.5

• Review, Hey, Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? by Shareen K. Murayama, Whale Road Review

• Review, Neck of the Woods by Amy Woolard, The Rumpus

• 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

• Interview, Beth Alvarado, The Rumpus

• Interview, Paulann Petersen, High Desert Journal

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

EVENTS & MEDIA

• 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

• Reader, phoebe Virtual Event, in Partnership with Virginia’s 2020 Fall for the Book Literary Festival

• ‘Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon’ Is Love Letter to the Region, Bend Magazine

• “An Ode to Central Oregon,” Interview, Bend Source Weekly

• “Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon: a labor of love for Bend editors,” Bend Bulletin

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

• Keynote Speaker & Workshop Facilitator, Art + Words, a Literary & Arts Festival with Scalehouse Gallery & OSU-Cascades, June 2022

• Participating Artist, Welcoming Week Art Walk, The Environmental Center, Bend, OR, September 2022

• Guest Poetry Instructor, Steins Pillar Elementary, Prineville, OR, May 2022

• Conversation with Charlie J. Stephens, author of A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest, Cafe Des Chutes, Bend, OR, April 4, 2024

• Reading, Ekphraestival: tangible cadence: artists transcribing poetry, in collaboration with Ebony Frison, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, April 11, 2024

ROLES

• Co-Editor, The Stay Project, 2017-2020

• Instructor, Central Oregon Community College, Continuing Education, 2018-Present

• Instructor, Editorial Consultant, Blank Pages Workshops, 2015-Present

• Instructor, The Forge Writing Program, 2022-Present

• Instructor, OSU-Cascades Low-Residency MFA in Writing, 2023-Present

• Co-Editor, Airlie Press, 2023-Present

Video

• 30th Annual Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon & Benefit, 6:21:05 - 6:26:03 (earlier to catch Bryon Cherry and the poet that writes out their poem in real tme)

• Irene Cooper reads poems and announces raffle ticket winners at the Portland Indie Book + Art Fair, July 8, 2023, with Airlie Press

• I AM A MOON BERRY, Words Performance with Moon Bukas, Irene Cooper, Ama Garza, & Laura Winberry, Last Saturday @The Workhouse, April 29, 2023

• Writers Resist Reads, April 22, 2023, “Beowulf,” 18:31 - 28:45

• 29th Annual Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon & Benefit, 6:42:00 - 6:46:20

• Airlie Press Reading at Roundabout Books, October 18, 2022

• Poets in Pajamas Reading Series (Sundress Publications), PiP 122 Irene Cooper

• “vacuum” YouTube reading for Witness Magazine

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

• “Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant,” a Reading Event with Faculty & Alumni of OSU-Cascades Low-Residency MFA

• Reading & Discussion of M-Theory by Tiffany Cates

• Tiffany Cates, Beth Alvarado, Irene Cooper, & Brigitte Lewis at Grass Roots Books & Music, March 2021

• Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon, A Conversation with the Editors, Roundabout Books

• “Know Place: Readings from & Discussion of Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon,” Deschutes Public Library