Peter Cooley

Poet

New Orleans, LA

Louisiana US

Email:

cooley@tulane.edu

Author's Bio

Director of Creative Writing and Senior Mellon Professor of English, Tulane University; Poet Laureate of Louisiana

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Divine Margins (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013)

A Place Made of Starlight (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003)

Sacred Conversations (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998)

The Astonished Hours (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992)

The Van Gogh Notebook (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1987)

Journals:

Atlantic Monthly

Esquire

New Republic

Poetry

The Nation

The New Yorker

Prizes won:

Marble Faun Prize from Faulkner Society of New Orleans; Atlas Grant from the State of Louisiana; Robert Frost Fellowship, Breadloaf Writers Conference

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Detroit

Raised in:

Detroit, MI

Michigan

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Last update: Aug 14, 2016