Seth Copeland
Lecturer
- Department(s): Literature, Writing, & Film
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- Email: copelans@uww.edu
Seth T. Copeland earned his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin. His research interests include visual poetry, found poetry, comics and sequential art, documentary poetics, hybrid lit, asemic writing, post-structuralism, antifascist writing, digital poetics, and multimodal composition pedagogies. He has edited the online literary magazine petrichor since 2016. His first full-length poetry collection, A Wichita Mountains Ontology, is forthcoming from Grieveland Press.
Education
PhD in English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2024)
Thesis: Local News From Where Met, a collection of poetry with a critical introduction,
Myth, Regionalism, and Documentary in Oklahoma Poetics.
MA, With Honors, University of Central Oklahoma, (2017)
Emcee for the Golden Pony Writer's Guild
BA, Cameron University, (2013)
Vice-President, Sigma Tau Delta chapter
Selected Publications
Collections
A Wichita Mountains Ontology (Grieveland Press, forthcoming 2025)
Digital Chapbooks
Plug in the Mountain (Yavanika Press, 2023)
Selected Poems
“Big Friendly Summer.” Permafrost, vol. 40, no. 1, Summer 2018.
“Citizen Eagle.” San Pedro River Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Fall 2022.
“Dionysus Visits the Hapsburg Crypts.” OCCULUM, no. 3, January 2018.
“Freedoms.” ctrl + v, no. 4, Summer 2019.
“Flood Season.” Dream Pop, Summer 2019.
“Flood Season.” The River: Sandy River Review Online, December 2023.
“Greer County Fade.” The Shore, no. 20, December 2023.
“How to Create Ghosts.” Really System, no. 21, February 2019.
“In Talihina, Bigfoot Likes Pabstcicles.” Juke Joint, no. 14, July 2021.
“Jellyfish.” Seneca Review, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring 2024.
from “Lake Michigan Sentence Fragments,” Clade Song, no. 13, September 2023.
from “Lake Michigan Sentence Fragments, Tabi Po, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2023.
from “Lake Michigan Sentence Fragments,” Word for/Word, vol. 49, August 2022.
“Last Look at Indiahoma Before Old 62 Takes You Nowhere Else” FEED, vol 2, no. 21, Fall 2021.
“Last Night in Tulsa I Leave This Poem in the Ash Tray” South Dakota Review, vol. 58, no. 1, 2024.
“Local News from Where We Met.” Southwestern American Literature, vol. 44, no. 1, August 2018.
“Panhandle.” Drunk Monkeys, vol. 8, no. 3, March 2023.
“Perhaps It’s You: An Unsolved Mysteries Retrospective.” Drunk Monkeys, vol. 5, no. 1, Nov. 2020.
“Prayer to Woody Guthrie,” SOFTBLOW, July 2019.
“Scenic Beach Romance on the Prairie.” GASHER, Spring 2020.
“Shoveling Out.” Roi Fainéant, April 2023.
“Showmen’s Rest.” Kestrel, no. 39, Summer 2018.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology,” About Place Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, Fall 2021.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology,” DATABLEED, no. 14, September 2022.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology,” Heavy Feather Review, December 2019.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology,” Puerto del Sol, forthcoming Fall 2024.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology,” Yalobusha Review, no. 38, February 2024.
“Who is Daddy.” Yes Poetry, November 2018.
Conference Presentations
American Lyrics as Political Poetry,
PCA/ACA, San Diego, April 2017
Emotion: A Response to Our Environment
Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference,
University of St. Thomas, April 2022