Stephen Cope
Stephen Cope’s publications include George Oppen: Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers, several chapbooks, pamphlets, and broadsides of poetry, and essays, reviews, and poems published and anthologized internationally. He was a founding editor of Essay Press, and is the host of Conference of the Birds, a weekly radio program/podcast of international and experimental musics that originates Friday evenings on WRFI in Central NY. Forthcoming or in-progress writings include Bellerophonic Letters (a book of poetry), Pedagogy of the Depressed (poems and essays), and Editions Vertiges, a continuation of Versiones Vertiges, a poem in different versions, first published in 2000. He is Associate Professor of Global Modernisms at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and serves as a Faculty Mentor in the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College, where he has taught since 2007.
Cole and I had been talking a lot lately about the “heart”—for reasons that may or may not be obvious—as an organ of perception or “conduit,” as well as a metaphor…
