The Poetry Project

Corina Copp

Corina Copp sits on a curb wearing sunglasses and looking at the camera, a purse and glass of wine at her feet. The shadow of the photographer is visible to the side.
© Sophia Le Fraga

Corina Copp is a poet, writer, and occasional maker. She is the author of the poetry collection, The Green Ray (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), and the play, The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love (Artists Space, PRELUDE Festival, Dixon Place, Home Alone 2, LMCC); and the North American translator of the memoir, My Mother Laughs (The Song Cave, 2019), by filmmaker Chantal Akerman. She has written about film, art, and literature for ICA London, Frieze, Film Comment, BOMB, Cabinet, Film Quarterly, Metrograph Journal, America: Films From Elsewhere (ed. Shanay Jhaveri), and elsewhere. A former readings co-curator at the Segue Foundation and The Poetry Project, she now programs Rotations, an LA-based screening series focused on the detours of nonfiction feminist filmmaking and artist cinema. Rotations is participating alongside thousands of artists around the world in the cultural boycott of Israel (PACBI). She received her MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College – CUNY and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California, where her research theorizes movement across discipline in relation to collaboration, itinerancy, recuperation, and process; and feminist, artist, and activist non-networks. She has led writing workshops at Poets House, Wendy’s Subway, and Mount St. Mary’s University, and is currently Special Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video.