The Finally Necessary
Miscellany, Musings, and Provocations
Michael Copperman
- Location
- Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Birthday
- June 11
- Bio
- Michael Copperman has a B.A. in English with creative writing from Stanford University, and teaches writing to non-traditional and at-risk students of color at the University of Oregon, where he received his MFA in Fiction. His nonfiction has appeared in Guernica, The Oxford American, Best of Creative Nonfiction (Norton Anthology, vol. III), GOOD, Teachers and Writers, Post Road, Stanford Magazine, Brevity, Anderbo, The Oregonian, The Register-Guard, and The Eugene Weekly, and is forthcoming from Luna Park and Copper Nickel. He is the recipient of the 2009 Walter Morey Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction from Literary Arts. His fiction has been published in The Arkansas Review, 34th Parallel, and Thirdreader, and is forthcoming from Copper Nickel, Unsaid, and Southword. His story "Harm," was recently shortlisted for the The Sean Ó Faolain Prize in short fiction from the Munster Literature Centre. From 2002-04 he taught fourth grade in the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta, and he is working on a novel about that experience.
MY RECENT POSTS
- I Can't Answer
September 23, 2008 01:28AM - Mean Beauty Queen
September 05, 2008 03:41PM - On Being a Sexist, or, Paris
Hilton ain't my kind of woman
August 05, 2008 06:54PM - The Politics of Race: Britney,
Paris, and the Black Man
August 02, 2008 08:30PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Funny thing, Ms.
Kingston. My mother and her
family are from
Waianaie, and
my tw…”
July 07, 2009 12:53PM - “I have this strange
sense that I said the line:
"You'll go
home, and go
home…”
July 03, 2009 03:14PM - “Like that...”
April 08, 2009 05:05PM - “Well, that's pretty. The
coal-black sky. The gutter
reaching
to the trees.
You…”
January 15, 2009 02:27PM - “I think I like that as
much in print as I did in
person.
Nebel
next?”
January 09, 2009 03:38PM
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I Can't Answer
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Mean Beauty Queen
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On Being a Sexist, or, Paris Hilton ain't my kind of woman
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Updates
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For Black History Month: Harriet and Jeremiah
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Hit record
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Whiteness and Witnesses, II
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Churches I have known
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Anarchists & Millage Idiots - A Letter to Joan Walsh
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Introducing the new Masturphone™
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It's Mother's Day and I'm crying because I miss my dad.
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Back and X-posting: Confessions of a Middle Aged Drama Queen
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