Cooper
@cooperdart.bsky.social
essayist who flosses when he remembers
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By Cooper Dart (with thanks to Sol Lewitt) Cooper Dart This past winter, during the final year of my MFA program, I took a class on poetics, and the only thing we as a course could agree upon at th…
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December 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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“Let’s see—the earliest roads were made / by animals, Google tells me, which doesn’t really answer my question. / Let’s say a border is less about division and more about contact.”
From "Lesson," one of two new original poems by @cooperdart.bsky.social.
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From "Lesson," one of two new original poems by @cooperdart.bsky.social.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“Let’s see—the earliest roads were made / by animals, Google tells me, which doesn’t really answer my question. / Let’s say a border is less about division and more about contact.”
From "Lesson," one of two new original poems by @cooperdart.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/Fnhn1Kx
From "Lesson," one of two new original poems by @cooperdart.bsky.social.
➡️ buff.ly/Fnhn1Kx
HELLO FRIENDS I HAVE POEMS OUT IN THE WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER @therumpus.net A SONNET AND SOMETHING ELSE SO MANY THANKS TO @theferocity.bsky.social FOR MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A POET !!!!
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December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
HELLO FRIENDS I HAVE POEMS OUT IN THE WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER @therumpus.net A SONNET AND SOMETHING ELSE SO MANY THANKS TO @theferocity.bsky.social FOR MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A POET !!!!
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Thrilled to have my essay "In Search Of" in the new @senecareview.bsky.social —a piece about craigslist and Andrew Wyeth and Nam June Paik and Ethel Cain and waste and (as always) a healthy amount of yearning. Many thanks to the editors for taking care of this strange child of mine! !
May 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thrilled to have my essay "In Search Of" in the new @senecareview.bsky.social —a piece about craigslist and Andrew Wyeth and Nam June Paik and Ethel Cain and waste and (as always) a healthy amount of yearning. Many thanks to the editors for taking care of this strange child of mine! !