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 Colorado Review, The Penn Review, The Shore, Atlanta Review, Saranac Review, Frontier Poetry, and more.
Selected work
- Poetry
12
Yellow, Purple, Black
Rust and Moth, 2025
What Words Do I Not Yet Have?
Frontier Poetry, 2024
What the Rain Told Me
Saranac Review, 2025
The Only Thing I'm Certain of
Stanchion, 2025
I wish I could have made you remember
The Penn Review, 2025
There's Something on Your Mind
Atlanta Review, 2025
waste it.
The Broken Plate, 2025
Ars Poetica as Eschatology
West Trade Review, 2025
Exile
Colorado Review, 2025
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