Peter Cooley
Author of Night Bus to the Afterlife
About the Author
Peter Cooley was born and educated in the Midwest and has lived over half of his life in New Orleans, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. The former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, he received the Marble Faun Award in Poetry from the Faulkner Society show more and an Atlas Grant from the state of Louisiana. He has published nine previous books, eight of them from Carnegie Mellon, among them Divine Margins and Night Bus to the Afterlife. Married and the father of three children, he has published poems in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic and a number of anthologies. show less
Works by Peter Cooley
Fire in Motor Vehicle Accidents 2 copies
The Solitudes 1 copy
Associated Works
The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (2003) — Contributor — 70 copies, 1 review
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- Canonical name
- Cooley, Peter
- Birthdate
- 1940
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Shimer College
University of Iowa
University of Chicago - Occupations
- poet
professor - Organizations
- Tulane University
- Short biography
- Peter Cooley (b. 1940) is an acclaimed American poet and a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. Cooley received his undergraduate education at Shimer College, where he enrolled via the school's early entrance to college program and graduated in 1962. His graduate education he acquired at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa, where he also attended the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop. As of 2012, Cooley has published nine volumes of poetry. (from Shimer College Wiki)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Michigan, USA
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