Cooper Dillon Books

Cooper Dillon Books Cooper Dillon is an independent poetry press founded on the values that make poems timeless.

Cooper Dillon is a small poetry press committed to upholding the virtues of Poetry as a high art and expression of truth, beauty, and sincerity. Through the publication, distribution and promotion of positive and integrity-bearing full-length poetry collections and chapbooks, Cooper Dillon's full intent and purpose is to bring a sense of presence and joy via poems. Cooper Dillon is dedicated to ho

nesty, self-sufficiency (we don't take grants, government funding, endowments, donations or money from our authors), community building and evolution of the art form. Become part of the Cooper Dillon Family by supporting our authors, teaching our books, and submitting your own work.

A big box of The Breakup by Mag Gabbert just arrived at our spot, so order it up! We'll start shipping soon.
04/17/2024

A big box of The Breakup by Mag Gabbert just arrived at our spot, so order it up! We'll start shipping soon.

This is Available for Pre-Order, and will Ship by Late April, 2024! The Breakup by Mag Gabbert ISBN-13: 978-1943899-20-3 Paperback, 36 pages First...

03/30/2024

Though Cooper Dillon Books never worked with SPD, we feel for our friends and the wonderful poets who are impacted by their closing. If you want to help those presses by ordering directly from their websites, Jen Benka made this resource for you to bookmark:

Our Latest Release is NIGHTTIME by Marina Hope Wilson! Swoop it up!
01/18/2024

Our Latest Release is NIGHTTIME by Marina Hope Wilson! Swoop it up!

Now Available for Preorder!! Shipping February 2024! Nighttime by Marina Hope Wilson ISBN-13: 978-1-943899-18-0 Paperback, 33 pages First Edition,...

We forgot to tell you: the Publisher of Cooper Dillon, Adam Deutsch, had a book come out this year. It's called Every Tr...
10/25/2023

We forgot to tell you: the Publisher of Cooper Dillon, Adam Deutsch, had a book come out this year. It's called Every Transmission, and is from Fernwood Press. You can get it here:

Every Transmission is about the erosion of our mechanical relationships and the movement to natural forms. Any attempts to escape the cycle only help to complete the circuits through which we flow.…

Read a new review of Remi Recchia's Quicksand/Stargazing at https://www.harbor-review.com/quicksand-stargazing
03/01/2022

Read a new review of Remi Recchia's Quicksand/Stargazing at https://www.harbor-review.com/quicksand-stargazing

At its core, Remi Recchia’s Quicksand/Stargazing is about connection and transformation. While the poems in the collection often focus on subjects like trauma and the complex process of becoming oneself, they are undergirded by an overwhelming sense of tenderness. Really, the poems act as love let...

Start the new year off with ordering some poems! https://store.cooperdillon.com/product/quicksand-stargazing-by-remi-rec...
01/01/2022

Start the new year off with ordering some poems! https://store.cooperdillon.com/product/quicksand-stargazing-by-remi-recchia

Please describe your journey toward writing poetry that reflects on the experience of living in the body. Have you always written this way, or did you come to it over time? For a long time, I avoided writing about my body. I think it started with the typical “baby poet” mindset: “But I want th...

09/30/2021

Remi Recchia is making it all happen! Pre-order his new collection, coming this month!

This book is coming out very soon! Pre-order it today!
09/14/2021

This book is coming out very soon! Pre-order it today!

Quicksand/Stargazing by Remi Recchia ISBN-13: 978-1943899-14-2 Paperback, 61 pages $15.00 + t/s/h Orders will ship upon release, in October 2021!...

Take in this poem by Remi Recchia, which is his forthcoming collection, Quicksand/Stargazing!
07/08/2021

Take in this poem by Remi Recchia, which is his forthcoming collection, Quicksand/Stargazing!

♦♦♦ Flash Fiction ♦♦♦ Emma Johnson-Rivard The Dancer in the Dark Jon Kemsley Return to Work Katharine Blair Gasping for Purchase Lyle Roebuck We Were Never Here Patrick Malka Happily, After Annie F…

Remi Recchia has a message for you today: "Good morning, Internet! It's a great day to preorder a book full of weird ott...
06/24/2021

Remi Recchia has a message for you today: "Good morning, Internet! It's a great day to preorder a book full of weird otter, ostrich, & puffin poems!"

Quicksand/Stargazing by Remi Recchia ISBN-13: 978-1943899-14-2 Paperback, 61 pages $15.00 + t/s/h Orders will ship upon release, in October 2021!...

We're full of joy to release Remi Recchia's debut collection of poems! Coming in October 2021!
04/25/2021

We're full of joy to release Remi Recchia's debut collection of poems! Coming in October 2021!

Quicksand/Stargazing by Remi Recchia ISBN-13: 978-1943899-14-2 Paperback, 61 pages $15.00 + t/s/h Orders will ship upon release, in October 2021!...

11/01/2020

Minml Poems by Mag Gabbert ISBN-13: 978-1943899-11-1 Paperback, 70 pages $9.00 + t/s/h "Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and...

It's Jill's Birthday this week, but she made this just for you.
09/01/2020

It's Jill's Birthday this week, but she made this just for you.

Would-Land by Jill Alexander Essbaum ISBN-13: 978-1943899-10-4 Paperback, 85 pages $15.00 + t/s/h From the back of the book: Jill Alexander...

There's a new chapbook coming this fall...
08/12/2020

There's a new chapbook coming this fall...

06/24/2020

We decided to clean things up over at cooperdillon.com, so check it out if you haven't been there in a while. You can read poems from every book we have, sign up for a mailing list we hardly use, and submit a manuscript!

Enjoy this new poem by Mónica Gomery, and find her magnificent book here: https://store.cooperdillon.com/product/here-is...
10/20/2019

Enjoy this new poem by Mónica Gomery, and find her magnificent book here: https://store.cooperdillon.com/product/here-is-the-night-and-the-night-on-the-road

Mónica Gomery’s “Here” feels as if it must be a prose poem—the rolling sentences and stacked syntax reveal the enormity of what can’t be said, the enormity of trying to say what can’t be said. Touch the flowers at the memorial, instead.…

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