Name Peter Campion | Role Poet | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Other people, The Lions, El Dorado, Mitchell Johnson, Joseph McNamara |
Poet peter campion reads sparrow
Peter Campion (born 1976) is an American poet.
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- Poet peter campion reads sparrow
- too shall pass peter campion nicky larkin gary hoctor gary lydon denise mccormack
- Works
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He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA, and from Boston University with an MA. He taught at Washington College, Ashland University, and Auburn University. He currently teaches at University of Minnesota and heads the Department of Creative Writing there.
His work has appeared in AGNI, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry, Slate, and The Yale Review. He won a Levis Reading Prize, for The Lions.
He was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, a Theodore Morrison Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Guggenheim Fellow. 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.