Authors
Peter Campion Poet United States of America
Although I'm originally from Boston, I now live with my wife and infant son in Berkeley, California and teach at Stanford University. I've been writing for as long as I can remember. From an early age poems seemed to me to offer the possibilities of many different art forms: for example, they could contain the kinds of narrative we expect from novels and movies as well as the bodily force and pleasure that we find in music. The poems in my first book are about the self's attempt to forge connections with others. The poems that are beginning to form my second book seem to be about the endeavor of making a life for one's self and family out of the exhilarating but often bewildering sweep of contemporary America.
Peter, born in 1976, is teaching Poetry at Stanford University, USA. His poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Literary Imagination, Poetry, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, TriQuarterly and other journals. A recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry, he is also the author of a book on the art of the American painter Mitchell Johnson. He is analysed in his debut collection of poetry, Other People (2005) as moving “between shared experience and an interior life with keen insight and formal skill.”
Participation Program
Round Table 3 Newness in my literature
Round Table 2 Newness in my literature
Round Table 1 Newness in my literature