Coco Gordon

Poet

Lyons, CO
Colorado US

Author's Bio

Latest in Interactiv’ Book series, #15, INTELLIGENCES, for Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest. I Graduated from Gaia U in 2012 MSc degree in Integrative EcoSocial Design. My new ARTBOX Studio creates new art and bookworks: Papermaking, Poetry, Artist books, Publishing, Exhibitions, Salons & Think-Tanks. My latest publications are: Politically Correct? collaborative book May 2015 with Luc Fierens and myself in Belgium for his Extra PostFluxPost Press & my Water Mark Press distribution; my longpoem, "Towards" appears in, Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change, published July 2015 by Routlege, Informa UK Limited. Last readings were at Innisfree Cafe, Boulder, 2016, and at the Ozarks OACC Congress Sept 2014.

In Venice, Italy 2008 I write up 42 interviews of the waters clogged with plastic, and was told by the Waters themselves to make a Water Complimentary Currency, pinned on mistakes humans make with endangered natural systems’ and vital needs. In Venice while in three month Emily Harvey Foundation residency, Rita degli Esposti's edizioninedite, small Buddhist Press published four chapbooks with my poetry and translations, Italian to English: What Opens Stays Forever, Clunk!; Poems for Clunk!; ConfluEssence; and Il Vuoto il Vento La Pioggia, a Buddist anthology including Anne Waldman.

Am Co-Chair of The Sustainable Futures Commission, on the EUB board, Lyons CO. Transforming consciousness is my SuperSkyWoman ethic. My ARTBOX Studio doing Salons for artists and writers. Am working on an experimental Memoir-novel from 1996 written at the Djerassi Foundation, + 1988 biographical vignettes from my SKIN book featuring famous friends Ray Johnson, Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh, Simone Forti, Betsy Damon, Arlene Schloss, Alison Knowles, Barbara T Smith, Sandra Semchuk, Emily Harvey, Claude Maillard.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Oreste 2 (Venice Biennale, 2000)
Books:
Politically Correct? (Water Mark Press, 2018)
,
Interactiv' #14 Lyons Creating Champions: A Blueprint for Recovery and Risk Mitigation (Water Mark Press, 2016)
,
A Biomass Continuity (Go If Press, 2004)
,
Knee (Ginocchio) (Porto Dei Santi, 2000)
,
Tikysk: Permaculture Getting to Know You (Foot Square Space, 1997)
,
Superskywoman (Leonardi V-Idea, 1995)
Journals:
Eternal Network
,
New Observations
,
Pig Iron Press
Prizes won: 

Susan B Anthony Award 1986

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, The Stories of Anton Tcheckov by edited by Robert M Linscott, A Bushel's Worth by Kyann Short, Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, Dreaming the Future by Kenny Ausubel

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Buddhist, Italian American
Prefers to work with: 
Naturalists/Environmentalists
Fluent in: 
Italian
Born in: 
Genoa
Italy
Raised in: 
New York City, NY
New York
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Last update: Mar 31, 2016