Ben Cooper
He/Him | Editor, Poet, Student | Berlin, MD, United States
Ben Cooper is a poet studying creative writing at Salisbury University. He is the winner of the 2025 AWP Intro Journals Award, works as a Managing Editor at 149 Review, and is published or forthcoming in swamp pink, Colorado Review, Guernica, The Penn Review, The Shore, Rust & Moth, and more.
Selected work
Still Life with Peach
Soon
Guernica
Old Darkness / Under a New Moon
Soon
Guernica
in morning light.
Soon
The MacGuffin
Uncertainty Principle
Soon
Swamp Pink
Afterimage
Sweet: A Literary Confection, 2025
Mayfly
Sweet: A Literary Confection, 2025
A Death Rattle, Too, Is Wet
The Inflectionist Review, 2025
Fearsome Critters: Fur Bearing Trout
The Inflectionist Review, 2025
At Least I'm Giving You the Birds
The Inflectionist Review, 2025
Mirages
Soon
Exposed Bone
Exile
Colorado Review, 2025
Yellow, Purple, Black
Rust and Moth, 2025
waste it.
The Broken Plate, 2025
There's Something on Your Mind
Atlanta Review, 2025
What the Rain Told Me
Saranac Review, 2025
The Only Thing I'm Certain of
Stanchion, 2025
Ars Poetica as Eschatology
West Trade Review, 2024
What Words Do I Not Yet Have?
Frontier Poetry, 2024
Elegy to the Vase of Dried Flowers on Your Bedside Table
The Shore Poetry, 2024
The Sound of Terminal Lucidity
The Shore Poetry, 2024
Everything Before Us (Behind Us)
The Shore Poetry, 2024
I wish I could have made you remember
The Penn Review, 2024
