Jeanine Walker with Elizabeth Cooperman and Laura Da'

Back in the city after a year abroad, local poet Jeanine Walker will launch her poetry collection The Two of Them Might Outlast Me with the help of friends in the poetry community Elizabeth Cooperman and Laura Da. The Two of Them Might Outlast Me is a first collection from a poet of traumatic intensity and transcendence. The death of a horse in the opening poem, a storm of violence throughout worth chasing, and one of love, loss, suicide, divorce, family, excursions both imaginary and all too real, remembered and created on the page, the poems in Jeanine Walker’s first book are intensely personal, the poems of someone who has been around, and, at the same time, poems that achieve the visionary impersonality marking truly transcendent poetry. This generous collection contains poem after poem that its reader will want to return to time and again. Jeanine Walker is the author of The Two of Them Might Outlast Me (2022). She has received writing fellowships from Artist Trust, The Jack Straw Cultural Center, Wonju, UNESCO City of Literature, and Inprint. Her poems have been published in Bennington Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. A poet with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, Jeanine is a long-time poetry teacher and most recently taught English at Kangwon National University in Chuncheon, South Korea. Elizabeth Cooperman co-edited (with David Shields) the anthology Life Is Short—Art is Shorter and co-authored with Thomas Walton The Last Mosaic, a tessellated guidebook to Rome. Most recently, she published Woman Pissing with University of Nebraska Press. This book-length literary collage explores writer's block, creativity, and Lee Krasner. Elizabeth is currently slogging through a Master's in Teaching program at Seattle U. A poet and a public-school teacher, Laura Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Da’ is the recipient of fellowships from the Native Arts and Culture Foundation and Tin House and has been a writer in residence for Richard Hugo House. She is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Redmond. She is the author of Tributaries, winner of the American Book Award, and Instruments of the True Measure, winner of the Washington State Book Award. Da’ is Eastern Shawnee. She lives near Renton with her husband and son.

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