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Period
  
1960s-present

Genre
  
Poetry


Name
  
Peter Cooley

Role
  
Poet

Peter Cooley Peter Cooley Poetry Foundation


Occupation
  
Poet and Professor of English

Nationality
  
United States of America

Education
  
University of Chicago, University of Iowa, Shimer College

Books
  
Night Bus to the Afterlife, Nightseasons, Divine Margins: Poems, A Place Made of Starlight, The Astonished Hours

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Peter Cooley (born November 19, 1940) is an American poet and Professor of English in the Department of English at Tulane University. He also directs Tulane’s Creative Writing Program. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Shimer College, the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. He is the father of poet Nicole Cooley.

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Career

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Prior to joining Tulane, Cooley taught at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He was the Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 1981.

Poetry and awards

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Cooley has published several books of poetry with the Carnegie Mellon University Press. He received the Inspirational Professor Award in 2001 and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award in 2003. On August 14, 2015 he was named Louisiana's poet laureate.

Poetry collections

  • The Company of Strangers (University of Missouri Press, 1975)
  • The Room Where Summer Ends (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1979)
  • Nightseasons (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983)
  • The Van Gogh Notebook (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1987)
  • The Astonished Hours (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992)
  • Sacred Conversations (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998)
  • A Place Made of Starlight (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003)
  • Divine Margins (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009)
  • Night Bus to the Afterlife (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014)
  • References

    Peter Cooley Wikipedia