Peter Campion

For the Irish actor, see Peter Campion (actor).
Peter Campion
Born1976 (age 47–48)
OccupationPoet, professor
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship

Peter Campion (born 1976) is an American poet.

He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA, and from Boston University with an MA.[1] He taught at Washington College,[2] Ashland University, and Auburn University.[3][4] He currently teaches at University of Minnesota and heads the Department of Creative Writing there.[5]

His work has appeared in AGNI,[6] ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry,[7] Slate,[8] and The Yale Review. He won a Levis Reading Prize, for The Lions.[9]

He was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University,[10] a Theodore Morrison Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Guggenheim Fellow.[11] He won a Pushcart Prize, and Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,

For five years, he edited the journal Literary Imagination, published by Oxford University Press, before turning over the editorship to Saskia Hamilton and Archie Burnett.[12] He currently edits the literary journal Great River Review, published by the University of Minnesota Creative Writing Program.[13]

Works

  • Other People. University of Chicago Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-226-09274-4.
  • The Lions. University of Chicago Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-09310-9.
  • El Dorado. University of Chicago Press. 2013. ISBN 978-022-607-725-3.
  • Radical as Reality Form and Freedom in American Poetry. University of Chicago Press. 2019. ISBN 978-022-666-337-1.
  • One Summer Evening at the Falls. University of Chicago Press. 2021. ISBN 9780226737256.

References

  1. ^ Fried, Daisy. "Peter Campion". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  2. ^ "Peter Campion, Blackbird". Blackbird.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  3. ^ "Peter Campion English Faculty". Media.cla.auburn.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  4. ^ "Swarthmore College :: English Literature :: Peter Campion". Swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  5. ^ "Poet Campion accepts position at UM". StarTribune.com. 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  6. ^ "AGNI Online: Nephew by Peter Campion". Bu.edu. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  7. ^ Fried, Daisy. "Just Now by Peter Campion : Poetry Magazine [poem/magazine]". Poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  8. ^ Campion, Peter (2007-06-26). ""Lilacs" - By Peter Campion - Slate Magazine". Slate.com. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  9. ^ "Poet Peter Campion Wins the VCU Levis Reading Prize". Newswise.com. 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  10. ^ "Faculty Profile | Stanford University Department of English". English.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  11. ^ "Peter Campion - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  12. ^ "Oxford Journals | Humanities | Literary Imagination". Litimag.oxfordjournals.org. 2011-03-01. Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  13. ^ "Great River Review". greatriverreview.com. 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2020-05-15.