Date/Time
Date(s) - November 6, 2025
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
Writers Harvest presents CSU creative writing faculty Dan Beachy-Quick, Matthew Cooperman, and Devon Fulford
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 6, 2025
Each year, the Creative Writing program participates in a nationwide program to fight hunger. Across the country, writers and readers unite to support food banks, soup kitchens, and local nutrition programs.
Poet, essayist, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick has published numerous poetry collections since 2003. He is also the author of A Whaler’s Dictionary, a collection of linked essays responding to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Recent publications include How to Draw a Circle: On Reading & Writing (Michigan UP’s Poets on Poetry Series) and a translation of Sappho and Pre-Socratic philosophy.
Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and other books. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press. A Founding Editor of Quarter After Eight, Cooperman is Co-Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University. More information is available on his website.
Devon Fulford (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections onus (2025), gulp (2024), the skin song (2024), and southern atheist: oh, honey (2021). She serves as the faculty director for Literacy Through Prose and Poetry at Colorado State University, where she teaches undergraduate writing and literature courses. Devon holds a Doctor of Education in transformative leadership and is in the first year of a PhD in creative writing, in which she is composing a craft book about the benefits of using experiential learning in the writing classroom.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, the Mary Crow and Deanna Ludwin Reading Series Endowment, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series, and other generous support.