Allan Peterson

Allan Peterson is the author of six books: This Luminous, New and Selected Poems (Panhandler Books), Other Than They Seem (Tupelo, winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award), Precarious (42 Miles Press),Fragile Acts (McSweeney's Poetry Series), a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Awards. Other books include: As Much As (Salmon Press); All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts) Anonymous Or (Defined Providence Prize 2001) and seven chapbooks, notably Omnivore, winner of the 2009 Boom Prize from Bateau Press; Any Given Moment, Right Hand Pointing online; and Stars on a Wire, University of Alabama's Institute for the Book Arts. His work was selected by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for his American Life in Poetry Series (#159) and appears in several anthologies: "American Poetry At the End of the Millennium," "Poetry of the American Apocalypse," (Green Mountains Review); "Don't Leave Hungry: 50 Years of the Southern Poetry Review," and in critical essays in Stephen Burt's "Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry. His next book, Susceptible, is forthcoming from Salmon Press in 2020.

He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The State of Florida. Prizes include: The American Poet Prize; Arts & Letters Poetry Prize; Alligator Juniper; Georgia State University Review; Comstock Review, among others. He was invited to read from his work at the 2010 Cuisle International Poetry Festival in Limerick, Ireland, and was a poetry panelist at the 61st Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado. A visual artist as well as a poet, he was for many years, chair of the Art Department and Director of The Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola State College. He lives in Gulf Breeze, Florida and Ashland, Oregon.His website is: www.allanpeterson.net