My co-author Beth Rosenberg and I are writing I Am My Beloved's, a collection of interviews and photographs of Jewish-American couples that explores the intersection of each couple's identities as a couple and as Jews and will reflect the diversity of the Jewish-American community.
My translation of Israeli poet Rachel Eshed's book Little Promises is published in a bilingual edition by Mayapple Press. In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. My translation of one of the poems in Little Promises was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Novelist Tsipi Keller says, "It is hard to speak of Rachel Eshed's poetry without mentioning 'fire' : her poems virtually burn on the page, and David Cooper's renditions not only do justice to the original but magnify its richness."
I am the author of two poetry collections, Glued To The Sky and JFK: Lines of Fire (PulpBits, 2003). PulpBits went out of business in March 2007, but by clicking on their titles you can download free PDFs of these ebooks.
Glued To The Sky includes both narrative and lyric poems concerning group identity and gender issues in a wide variety of forms .
JFK: Lines of Fire is a sequence of dramatic documentary vignettes culled from the literature concerning the assassination of President Kennedy.
I earned an MA in Creative Writing at The City College of CUNY where I won the Academy of American Poets Prize. My poems are anthologized in XY Files: Poems On The Male Experience
(Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997), and my poems and translations have
appeared in numerous periodicals. I was a finalist in the 1999 Snake Nation Press book contest, and have been a semi-finalist in several other national contests, including the 2007 Pushcart Prize. I am also a graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where I specialized in media and communications. My prose has appeared in New York Woman, Poetic Voices, Mind Body and Soul, The Israel Economist, the wire services of the Associated Press, and I cover the NY Jewish Culture beat for Examiner.com . I have taught history, poetry, and writing on the middle school, high school, and college levels.
You can find me on LinkedIn, Live Journal, Twitter, and myspace; I'm also on Facebook, but you have to have a Facebook and be logged in to see Facebook profiles.
I live in Brooklyn, NY, with my wife abstract painter Shoshana Cooper.
