Cooper B. Wilhelm is the author of three books of poetry: a microchapbook about raising the dead, Walt Whitman, and breakups called Klaatu Verata Nikto (Ghost City Press / 2016); a full-length collection called DUMBHEART/STUPIDFACE (Siren Songs / 2017); and a chapbook of poems about pigs commissioned as part of the Animals series (Business Bear Press / 2018).