Seth Copeland
Lecturer
- Department(s): Literature, Writing and Film
- Office Location: LT 3271
- Phone: 262-472-7392
- Email: copelans@uww.edu
Seth T. Copeland earned his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include visual poetry, found poetry, comics and sequential art, documentary poetics, hybrid lit, asemic writing, post-structuralism, antifascist writing, digital poetics, and multimodal composition pedagogies. His chapbook Instead of Sunshine is available from Bottlecap Press. He has edited the online literary magazine petrichor since 2016 and is the co-host of the Tabi Po! Poetry series in Milwaukee.
Education
PhD in English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2024)
Thesis: Local News From Where Met, a collection of poetry with a critical introduction,
Myth, Regionalism, and Documentary in Oklahoma Poetics.
MA, With Honors, University of Central Oklahoma, (2017)
Emcee for the Golden Pony Writer's Guild
BA, Cameron University, (2013)
Vice-President, Sigma Tau Delta chapter
Selected Publications
Instead of Sunshine (Bottlecap Press, 2026)
Plug in the Mountain (Yavanika Press, 2023)
Selected Poems
"Caddo Creek," "Fasciation." ALOCASIA (March 2025)
“Flood Season,” "Mid-October Haibun," "St. Christopher." The River: Sandy River Review Online, December 2023.
“Greer County Fade.” The Shore, no. 20, December 2023.
“How to Create Ghosts.” Really System, no. 21, February 2019.
"The Infant Jesus of Prague, Oklahoma," "The Surface World." Jet Fuel Review, no. 30, December 2025.
“Jellyfish.” Seneca Review, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring 2024.
from “Lake Michigan Sentence Fragments.” Clade Song, no. 13, September 2023.
from “Lake Michigan Sentence Fragments.” Word for/Word, vol. 49, August 2022.
“Last Night in Tulsa I Leave This Poem in the Ash Tray.” South Dakota Review, vol. 58, no. 1, 2024.
“Local News from Where We Met.” Southwestern American Literature, vol. 44, no. 1, August 2018.
"Overwintering." Poet Lore vol. 120, Winter 2025.
“Perhaps It’s You: An Unsolved Mysteries Retrospective.” Drunk Monkeys, vol. 5, no. 1, Nov. 2020.
“Showmen’s Rest.” Kestrel, no. 39, Summer 2018.
from "The Surface World." Thin Air Magazine, no. 31, April 2025.
"Tar Creek Aubade." Red Ogre Review, no. 31, August 2025.
"Tusko." Painted Bride Quarterly, no. 106, May 2024.
"Wake." Rust & Moth, Spring 2025.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology.” About Place Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, Fall 2021.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology.” DATABLEED, no. 14, September 2022.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology.” Puerto del Sol, vol. 59, no. 2, Fall 2024.
from “A Wichita Mountains Ontology.” Yalobusha Review, no. 38, February 2024.
Conference Presentations/Activities
Coordinator for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest
Fall 2024 - present
Co-host, Tabi Po Poetry Series
2023 - present
Emotion: A Response to Our Environment
Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference,
University of St. Thomas, April 2022
American Lyrics as Political Poetry,
PCA/ACA, San Diego, April 2017