Dennis Cooley (born 1944) is a Canadian writer of poetry and criticism, a retired university professor, and a vital figure in the evolution of the prairie long poem. He was raised on a farm near the small city of Estevan, Saskatchewan in Canada , and currently resides in Winnipeg , Manitoba .
17-416: Bloody Jack may refer to: "Bloody Jack", the nickname of 19th century Māori chief Tūhawaiki . Bloody Jack (poetry), a book of poetry by Dennis Cooley . Bloody Jack (novel) , a young adult book written by L.A. Meyer. "Bloody Jack", a song by Serge Gainsbourg from his 1968 album Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot: Initials B.B. . Topics referred to by
34-427: A bi-monthly magazine, which soon proved difficult. By the winter of 1978 they began listing the magazine as "Special Double issues", which would eventually turn into the quarterly publication it is today. The magazine almost met its end in 1978 when owners were confronted with massive debt. However, in 1982 it had a second chance. A small group got together (which included Meeka Walsh ) and agreed that Arts Manitoba
51-537: A different cover portraying a work of art. An example of this is an issue from February 2008: Wangechi Mutu designed the cover named "Perhaps the Moon Will Save Us." The cover is a collage shaped like a moon made from mixed media, blankets, plastic pearls, aluminum foil, animal pelts, packaging tape, ink and other materials. The first 110 issues of the magazine were in an 8½×11-inch format, saddle-stitched at first, but later perfect bound. The current format
68-803: Is currently keeping busy by working on personal travel journals, poetry books, and a plethora of essays. Cooley is the recipient of twelve Manitoba Book Awards, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also won or been nominated for the following: Border Crossings (magazine) Border Crossings is a magazine published quarterly from Winnipeg , Manitoba, Canada. It investigates contemporary Canadian and international art and culture. The magazine includes interviews with artists, profiles, exhibition reviews, and portfolios of drawings and photographs. The magazine covers various forms of arts including paintings , performances , architecture , sculpture and films . Border Crossings
85-441: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dennis Cooley Cooley's self-proclaimed influences in writing are William Carlos Williams , H.D. , Robert Duncan , Charles Olson , E.E. Cummings , Eli Mandel , Andrew Suknaski , Daphne Marlatt , bpNichol , Michael Ondaatje , and Robert Kroetsch . As a student, Cooley held a variety of different labouring jobs during
102-604: Is now 9×11 ¾ inches. The layout for the magazine has been renowned for its contemporary design and high production values. The photography portfolios have contributed to the magazine's success as well as several awards for Best Non-Fiction Feature, Manitoba Magazine of the Year and several gold medals from the Western Magazine Awards. Each issue has several articles ranging from films to theatre, from architecture to writing, and many interviews and reviews. The magazine
119-638: The long poem . He shows special interest in Canadian Literature, American Writing, modern and postmodern writing, the languages of orality and print, poetry and politics, and literary theory. To date, Cooley has published a dozen volumes of poetry, and over a hundred various articles, columns, reviews, and interviews. Cooley has travelled abroad to share his talent by giving workshops, lectures and readings to places such as Ukraine and Russia (Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Moscow) in May 1991, to
136-1081: The Contributing Editor to Border Crossings from 1989 to 1993, as well as the Editor at the Pachyderm Press from 1993 onward. He also served as the Workshop Leader at the Sage Hill Writing Experience in 1992, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Cooley is a founding editor of the Turnstone Press in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which was created in 1976 in a local Winnipeg pub. Turnstone promotes authors who are either landed immigrants or Canadian citizens, with fifty percent featuring local Manitoba content and Manitoban writers. Cooley specializes in different genres of poetry; such as literary travel, literary criticism , and
153-772: The Manitoba Writers’ Guild, and is currently President. The Guild, founded in 1981 in Aubigny, Manitoba as a support group for Manitoba writers, offers workshops, conducts local reading groups and a peer support network for enhancing and encouraging other writers of all skill levels. Cooley is also an editor, and from 1975 to 1976 was the Assistant Editor on the Journal of Canadian Fiction, the Poetry Editor of Arts Manitoba from 1978 to 1979 and 1982–1983,
170-783: The University of Manitoba and taught Early Modern and Contemporary poetry, specializing in Robert Duncan, Dorothy Livesay , Margaret Atwood , Robert Kroetsch, Eli Mandel , Prairie Literature, the Long poem in the Twentieth Century, Canadian Writers in Self-construction, Fundamentals of Literary Theory, American Literature, Creative Writing, Poetry & Media 1994–1995, Narratology & Postcolonialism. He retired from in 2011. He has since helped start create
187-857: The World Poetry Conference in Portugal in May 1995 and again in May 2001, Berlin in August 2002, Poland in April 1999, and Spain in December 1998. To benefit those who don't read his native language of English, some of his work has been translated into Portuguese, German, Chinese and Ukrainian. Cooley gave his time to the University of Augsburg in the summer of 1996 by being the Canadian Studies guest professor. Cooley
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221-409: The summers. First attending secondary schooling at the University of Saskatchewan , Cooley obtained with added Distinction his Bachelor of Education Degree in 1966, a High Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1967 and afterwards upgraded to his Masters of Arts Degree on Stephen Crane 's imagery and symbolism in 1968. Cooley later moved to New York state to attend the University of Rochester . It
238-652: The transition to Border Crossings: A Quarterly Magazine of the Arts from Manitoba . In 1993 Meeka Walsh became the official editor of Border Crossings . Her first issue as editor was titled "Silencers", featuring the painter, sculptor and performance artist, Gathie Falk . Over the years the magazine has explored themes like War, Drawing, Animals, Art and Technology, Multiculturism, Landscape, Love, Circus and many more. The Border Crossings magazine publishes quarterly in February, May, August and November. Each issue features
255-559: Was founded in 1982 by Robert Enright under the title Arts Manitoba . Robert Enright had returned to Manitoba in 1972 to do his post-graduate studies at the University of Manitoba in the English department. During this time a group of professors at St. John's College were toying with the idea of starting a literary press, and thus began the Turnstone Press in 1975. It was because of this literary press that Arts Manitoba came into existence. Arts Manitoba had originally intended to be
272-760: Was there that Cooley prepared the research for his doctorate on the San Francisco-born American poet, Robert Duncan . He received the Ph. D in 1971. From 1972 to 1973, Cooley was employed within the Blakeney Government in Saskatchewan as an executive assistant. Apart from this, most of Cooley's working life has been teaching English. He has worked at St. John's College since 1976 as the Organizer of Literary Conferences within
289-410: Was worth reviving. They were aware that in order for the magazine to be successful they needed government funding and they needed to restructure the magazine. Eventually the members of the board realized that their current magazine title restricted their literary audience. Their first step to a new title was Volume 4, Number 4 titled "Special Canada/U.S. issue". Only a few issues later the title had made
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