DENNIS COOLEY has been active on the Prairies as poet, editor, critic and publisher. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the League of Canadian Poets and Manitoba Writers; Guild, and has published over 30 titles, including his latest: body works (University of Calgary Press, 2023), love in a dry land (Turnstone, 2024), gibbous moon (At Bay Press, 2021).

Find more of Cooley’s poems in EVENT 54/1.