David Cope

David Cope: is a former Grand Rapids Michigan Poet Laureate (2011-2014) and Pushcart Prize winner (1977). He is the author of over nine books and was a longtime editor of Big Scream magazine. His work has appeared internationally, including translations in China. In 2021, he published The Correspondence of David Cope and Allen Ginsberg. Currently, he is working on The Night Blooming Cereus: Later Poems 2003-2024, to be published by Jabber Publications. The David Cope Papers are maintained at the University of Michigan Special Collections Resource Center, and his webpage, The Dave Cope Sampler, is online at the Museum of American Poetics.