CHURCH OF BEETHOVEN- NORTHERN COLORADO
Sunday July 20 3 p.m. Old Machines Duo with Poets Aby Kaupang & Matthew Cooperman
$15.00
Old Machines Duo (Sarah Off, violin and Mathieu D'Ordine, Cello) delights in sharing their interpretations of works, new and old, with their audiences. They specialize in the performance of newly written and obscure works for violin and cello and find great artistic inspiration in working with living composers. They take their name from composer, Dylan Fixmer’s piece “Old Machines” written for them in 2020.
Aby Kaupang is the author of & there’s you still thrill hour of the world to love, Radiant Tether, NOS, (disorder not otherwise specified) (w. Matthew Cooperman), Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me, and multiple other collections. She holds master’s degrees in creative writing and occupational therapy.
Choosing to work outside of academia, she practices as an occupational therapist and nurse’s aide specializing in the treatment of neurodivergent and special needs children.
Aby lives in Fort Collins, CO where she assists in organizing an annual book festival, hosts the reading series, EveryEye, and has served as Poet Laureate. &
Poet, educator, editor and ecocritic, Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press.
Food and drink available for purchase. All sales are final with no refunds unless show is cancelled.