ABOUT
Photo credit: S. Vay
Site design: Arianne Ayu Alizio
Alex J. Cope is a poet, translator, and educator based in Chicago. Previously, they lived in Paris, where they hosted La Méduse, a multilingual queer and feminist reading series. They hold a MA in Comparative Literature from Université Paris 8, completing a thesis on Alice Notley’s and Monique Wittig’s experiments with the epic.
Specialized in language acquisition and creative writing, they have worked with students of all ages in France and the United States. Currently, they co-organize a community writing workshop out of the PO Box Collective, a social practice center and mutual aid hub in Chicago, as part of its monthly Poetry Series.
Poems from their manuscript soft like a spider have appeared in publications by Tyger Quarterly, Sixty Inches from Center, The Rumpus, Pilot Press London, and Hooligan Magazine. Their chapbook translation of Noah Truong's How to Change a Body is available from selva oscura press. They are currently at work on a translation of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 alongside an accompanying poetic diary on the queer art of translation.
--
Interested in taking a French language or literature class with me? Check out available openings: 🌹
Contact: alexjanecope @ gmail.com