The Immortal Ten
: The Definitive Account of the 1927 Tragedy and Its Legacy at Baylor University
A narrative nonfiction book, published by Baylor University Press in 2025.
“With careful attention to historical accuracy, Todd Copeland recounts the lead-up, collision, aftermath, and legacy of the men aboard Baylor’s athletic bus that day. This account chronicles the passion, pride, and heroism of our students and exemplifies the Baylor Family at its very best.”
— LINDA A. LIVINGSTONE, President, Baylor University
“In this excellent work, Todd Copeland shows how the men who died in the accident have become immortal keepers of the Baylor spirit and how the survivors didn’t let this tragedy become the defining moment of their lives.”
— ALAN J. LEFEVER, Director, Texas Baptist Historical Collection
Like All Light: Poems
A full-length poetry book, published by Gunpowder Press in Santa Barbara, California, as the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize in 2021.
“From the opening lines of Like All Light and throughout the collection, Todd Copeland wraps these poems in elegiac language both lyrical and haunting. His flood of memories—real and imagined—will remain with the reader long after the reading is done. Take your time; it’s well worth the journey.”
—Lynne Thompson, Los Angeles Poet Laureate
“These attentive love poems—love of place, love of family, love of language—are ‘worldly’ in a most generous, deeply human and humble sense. Heir to metaphysical poets like Charles Wright and James Wright, Copeland understands that poems not only reflect but take place; and in his vision, landscapes (literal and metaphorical, internal and external) are so reverently observed that each reveals its singular luminosity.”
—Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems
“Like All Light is aptly titled in that these poems illuminate our world with, as the poet writes, an ‘elegiac brightness.’ Copeland’s world is a fallen one, but one that is still suffused with grace, if one knows where to look, and these poems teach us how to do just that. We are invited to ‘make something / that never existed before.’ Pound urged poets to ‘make it new,’ and Copeland answers that call in a collection of phenomenal tenderness and beauty.”
—Austin Smith, author of Flyover Country
Peculiar Fire: Ten Years of Gunpowder Poetry
An anthology of poems by each of the poets, including myself, who had full-length volumes published with Gunpowder Press during its first ten years. Published in 2025.
The Book as Knife: Poems
A poetry chapbook, published by Ravenna Press in Edmonds, Washington, as part of its Triple Series, in 2021.