M. James Cooper

Each #event brings new #challenges & #insights. I truly enjoy this #labor of #love & the #LGBT focus, event three, was no exception. I share these #photos not simply as #trophy or #advertising of self, but to thank everyone for making it happen. Special shoutout to @pauldbestphoto, you are truly one fantastic creature. @punchlinephilly for the space. I look forward to new beginnings in 2018 #mjamescooper #tomorrowpleasegod #thesevennarratives #booklaunch (at Punch Line Philly)

#MJamesCooper is bringing #Seven #Narratives to #NewYorkCity. Join me for my fourth #book #signing & #live #reading event. This will be the first visit to #NYC in support of this #project, so come support me in the new year. #Books & #prints will be available for sale. I hope to see you there. #seeyourselfhere #photography by @_xst

A born national of the twin island of #Trinidad & #Tobago, M. James Cooper is a graduate of #Temple #University with a B.A. in English Education & African Studies. Once a hobby-driven #writer, he has a few #poems #published in some online #magazines, including, Tomorrow, Please God, a short #fiction piece, published by #Moko #Magazine in #2015. #Fictional short #stories are one of many ways with which he hopes to achieve success, but more so, shed light on, as well as garner appreciation for, #West #Indian #creative texts. &BlackIssues, a #collection of "narrative telling" was his intro to the wide public; Tomorrow, Please God: The Seven Narratives, a #sophomore effort, #explores many things, but most important, it is an expression of the #human #experience. The works you will read in this new #collection are #African centered, steeped in #Caribbean #folklore & #cultural #narrative styles. Mark currently resides in the #city of #brotherly #love & #sisterly affection, #Philadelphia. #photography by @_xst #authorsofinstagram #mjamescooper #caribeanwriter

@solomontemplelovepage @mr_steve_17 Danae Berry & @ms_morris_is_an_aries Thanks for your love & support at event 2. (at Books & Stuff)

Book 1: #narrativetelling / #poetry #Book 2 a #collection of 7 #shortfiction #stoties Get an autographed copy from me. Support #livingartists

Thank you to all my #guests/#supporters near & far. Thanks to @artsanctuaryphilly for the #event space. Enjoy the #pictures. All #photography by @pauldbestphoto (at ART SANCTUARY)

Thank you to all my #guests/#supporters near & far. Thanks to @artsanctuaryphilly for the #event space. Enjoy the #pictures. All #photography by @pauldbestphoto (at ART SANCTUARY)

Thank you to all my #guests/#supporters near & far. Thanks to @artsanctuaryphilly for the #event space. Enjoy the #pictures. All #photography by @pauldbestphoto (at ART SANCTUARY)

He is #despised and #rejected of #men; a man of #sorrows, and acquainted with #grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. #Isaiah 53:3 #excerpt from Miss Tourist by #mjamescooper #photography by @_xst for #tomorrowpleasegod #thesevennarratives #fiction #lore #shortstory (at Germantown Section Of Philadelphia)

...Man never give #woman one cent to hold. He #drink, he #gamble and do all other sort of wrong things before he come home and pass out. Man no longer dreamed. His used to be filled with images of #provision, and #ownership of self... #excerpt from Somewhere Behind Gods Back by #mjamescooper #photography by @_xst for #tomorrowpleasegod #thesevennarratives #fiction #lore #shortstory (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Dem #colonists was to blame for her condition, and for their heartfelt shame, or so dey believed. Half truths and bitter contentions would disturb, what seemed, peaceful #island livin'. Now, the past, the land, and dis house, the spilled #blood of the #dead and even dat big old #church on the corner, it was all theirs. No one remembers a time when dey were not here in dis place; thief-way from the #Caribs and the #Arawaks, then pass ‘roun’ like cheap ‘oman to the #Spanish, the #Dutch, the #French den to the #Queen and her people who doh care ‘bout not'ing but dem’self. #excerpt from Miss Tourist by #mjamescooper #photography by @_xst for #tomorrowpleasegod #thesevennarratives #fiction #lore #shortstory (at Germantown Section Of Philadelphia)

Thanks to @cmy_vijhun for the #photography More to come from @pauldbestphoto Some candids from my first #booksigning event for #tomorrowpleasegod #thesevennarratives @rrj1 @rasul_cut_life

Manage to #master this & you can face yourself. All of the #anger & #bitter #tastes, all of the #sentiment, awe, #ridicule, self #critique; put your thoughts on paper then be #free. Now you are more than son of a man, you are #artist bringing #seven #narratives that celebrate, not only what the mind can imagine, but present those things that make #spirit #tangible. See yourself, here.

I am so ready to spread my wings & fly, high off the gift of this second project. I know, corny but true. The blessing I have to be able to share this #art is real & intoxicating. I thank all of my past support, my current & would be loves, thank you. Thank you Shawn Theodore @_xst for the brilliant #photography, & #God for the #gift of this art & the life I breath that allows me to creat all of what I do. (at Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia)