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Life At All
Allan's latest book.
Allan's Previous Books
Other Than They Seem
This Luminous
A volume of selected works.
Welcome to AllanPeterson.net
Allan's latest book.
A volume of selected works.
Allan Peterson is the author of six full length books of poetry: This Luminous: New and Selected Poems, (Panhandler Books); Precarious, (42 Miles Press) a finalist for The Lascaux Prize and chosen as one of the four best books of poetry of 2014 by The Chicago Tribune; Fragile Acts, (McSweeney's Poetry Series), a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Oregon Book Award; As Much As, (Salmon Press, Ireland); All the Lavish in Common, (Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts); Anonymous Or, (Defined Providence Prize) and eight chapbooks, including Omnivore. winner of the Bateau Press Chapbook Prize; Other Than They Seem, (Tupelo Press), winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Prize. His seventh book, Susceptible, will be published by Salmon Press, Ireland, in 2020.
His poetry appears in several anthologies: “American Poetry At the End of the Millennium,”
“Poetry of the American Apocalypse,” (Green Mountains Review), and in critical essays in Stephen Burt’s “The Poem is You, 60 Contemporary Poets and How to Read Them,” and “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry,” The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He was selected by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for his “American Life in Poetry Series” (#159) and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The State of Florida. He was an in-vitee to the Cuisle International Poetry Festival in Limerick, Ireland, and a poetry panelist at the 61st Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado.
A visual artist as well as a poet, he has taught at The State University of New York; Southern Illinois University, and Pensacola State College, where he was chair of the Visual Arts Department and director of the Switzer Center for Visual Arts until retiring in 2005.
Allan Peterson
Poet and Visual Artist
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Current as of February 2019
An essay on my work is included in The Poem Is You, 60 Contemporary American Poets and How to Read Them, by Stephen Burt
Books:
This Luminous, New & Selected Poems, from Panhandler Books, University of West Florida 2019 Finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Award
Precarious, 42 Miles Press 2014, a finalist for 2015 Lascaux Prize
Fragile Acts, #2, McSweeney's Poetry Series, finalist for both the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and Oregon Book Awards
Susceptible, Salmon Press, Ireland 2020. My second book with that distinguished press
Other Than They Seem, 2014 Snowbound Prize, Tupelo Press judged by Ruth Ellen Kocher
All The Lavish In Common, University of Massachusetts 2006, winner 2005 Juniper Prize
Anonymous Or, Defined Providence Press 2002
Stars On A Wire, University of Alabama, Institute for the Book Arts 1989, Sharon Long and Jean Buscher, designers
Chapbooks:
Other Than They Seem, 2014 Snowbound Prize, Tupelo Press judged by Ruth Ellen Kocher
Omnivore, Bateau Press, 3rd annual Boom Chapbook Prize
Any Given Moment, Right Hand Pointing 2005 http://www.archives.righthandpointing.com/allan_peterson/
Speechless, Interior chapbook, Hurricane Review 2005
Lucky For Us, Interior chapbook, Halftones 1989
Stars On A Wire, Reissue, Right Hand Pointing http://www.archives.righthandpointing.com/starsonawire/
Assurances, web chapbook from Right Hand Pointing 2011
Small Charities, #7 University of West Florida Chapbook Series 1994
Recent Appearances in print and online:
A Public Space, American Chordata, American Literary Review, Bennington Review, Blackbird, Isthmus Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hat, Northwest Review, The Believer, The Literary Review, Mississippi Review, The Nation, Post Road, Phoebe, Puerto del Sol, The Seventh Quarry (Wales), South Florida Poetry Journal, Subtropics, Typo, West Branch, Plume,
Readings:
City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Pensacola Museum of Art,Pensacola, Florida
Ashland OR, Bloomsbury Books, with John Witte
Boise ID, Ghosts & Projectors Reading Series, with Martin Corless-Smith and Megan Levad
South Bend IN, 42 Miles Press, David Dodd Lee editor
Portland OR, Glyph Cafe and Art Space, with Jesse Nathan, Carl Adamshick, Sarah Bartlett, Hajara Quinn
Portland OR, Mountain Writers Series, Concordia University, with John Brehm
Portland OR, Glyph Cafe & Art Space, with Andrea Hollander
Eugene OR, Windfall Reading Series, with Mel Wells
Fredericksburg VA, Germanna Comminity College
Portland OR, 2013 Wordstock Festival invited author
Boston MA, 2011 Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Cambridge, MA, with poet/critic Stephen Burt.
Anthologies:
Even The Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry 2016
The New Binary Press Anthology of Poetry: Vol. 1, Cork, Ireland 2012 http://newbinarypress.com/
American Poetry at the end of the Millennium, Green Mountains Review 1997
Literature of the American Apocalypse, Green Mountains Review 2005
Humor in American Poetry, Green Mountains Review, 2002
"Decomposition" Anthology of Fungus Inspired Poems 2010
"Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review" Anthology 2009
"Close Calls With Nonsense," by Stephen Burt, Graywolf 2009
Guest Poetry Editor:
Crazyhorse 2010;
Coeditor "Transformation" issue, www.qarrtsiluni.com 2008
Extra:
"Expecting The Momentous" unpublished manuscript a finalist for 2015 Colorado Poetry Prize
Poem, "Lasting," was a finalist for the national competition of The Southeast Review 2013.
Poem, Ex Libris, won the 2012 Alligator Juniper Prize. A second poem, Wishing, was a finalist.
Listen to reviews of recent books (including mine) by Stephen Burt from the Woodbury Poetry Room
"Mars on Life," first published by The Seventh Quarry (Wales), chosen as the Best Science Fiction Poem published in the UK in 2010 by Hilltop Press
Nic Sebastian reads my poem "Self Knowledge" on Whale Song
The online journal Right Hand Pointing nominated my poem "After Distraction" for Best of the Web 2010
At Length journal online published the entire first section of my manuscript "None Other."
Invited to read at the Cuisle International Poetry Festival, Limerick, Ireland, October 2010
Panelist The 61st Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder 2009
Exhibtions:
Glyph Cafe and Art Space, Portland, Oregon, September 2014
"The Juror's Invitational," Artel Gallery, Pensacola Florida, 2013
"Drawn to New York," Invitational Exhibition, Lederer Gallery, State University of New York, Geneseo, 2010
"None of the Above: An Assembling," Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, October 2009
"Invitational Pencil & Paper Drawing Exhibition," Loyola University Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2008
Poetry Prizes:
Alligator Juniper Poetry Prize 2012
American Poet Prize, American Poetry Journal 2009
Omnivore, 3rd Annual Boom Chapbook Prize from Bateau Press 2009 selected as Editor's Chapbook Choice by The Aurorean Review
First Annual Dos Cosas Prize from Words and Images Journal 2009
American Poet Prize from American Poetry Journal 2008
Comstock Review, Muriel Craft Bailey Prize
Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts and The State of Florida
Poetry Published:
Shenandoah; Blackbird; The Paris Review Daily; Denver Quarterly; The Nation; The Believer; The Rumpus The Seventh Quarry (Wales); Revival (Ireland);Tusculum Review; Crazyhorse; Zócalo, Slingshot; decomP; New Millennium; Prime Number; Poets & Artists (Oranges and Sardines); Verdad; Press 1; Epiphany; Cloudbank; Epiphany: Prick of the Spindle; Plume; Riverwind; Salamander; Weary Blues Arts Journal (Ireland);The Furnace Review; Natural Bridge; Disquieting Muse Quarterly; Bolts of Silk (Scotland); Valparaiso Review; The Guidebook.org; Avatar; White Whale Review; 10th Anniversary Issue, Southern Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA; New Binary Press Anthology (Cork, Ireland); Pear Noir!; The Economy Magazine, Redactions, Memorious; American Literary Review; A Public Space; Blue Mesa Review; Cordite (Australia); West Branch; Thrush; Tusculum; Innisfree; Mississippi Review; Berkeley Poetry Review; Blunderbuss; Better; 32 Poems