August 28, 2006


Meet the Flockers: Cooper Renner

I’m old.


I’m getting ready to retire (yippee!) after more than a quarter of a century in Texas public schools.

I began editing elimae in 2005.

Ravenna Press published my first book of translations, Chinese Checkers: Three Fictions by Mario Bellatin, in May 2006.

I write essays and reviews, under the names B. Renner and Cooper Renner, among them those at “In Dissent”, my column at Web Del Sol.

I publish poems under the name Cooper Esteban.

I find it most gratifying to have a cup of good tea and a toasted bagel with butter.

posted by Cooper Renner in Meet the Flockers 

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4 Responses to “Meet the Flockers: Cooper Renner”

  1. Andrew Simone on August 28th, 2006 at 1:38 pm

    It seems they way to solve the generation gap is through tea and bagels.

    I have been on a green tea kick lately, but historically I have enjoyed a good Earl Grey.

  2. Sheila Ryan on August 28th, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    I know that at one time you were able to produce a shriek suggestive of a pterodactyl’s (imagined) scream.

    And I know that both you and I know that I possess (in digital form) copies of certain of your juvenilia.

    And I know that I admire your modesty with respect to your gifts and accomplishments (and contents of your larder) almost as much as I admire the gifts (et cetera) themselves.

  3. Sheila Ryan on August 28th, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    P.S. How in tarnation could you be old? I ain’t old, and I ain’t all that much younger than you.

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