Peter Cooley

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.^[1]

Career

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

Cooley has published eight books of poetry, all with the Carnegie Mellon University Press.^[2] He received the Inspirational Professor Award in 2001 and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award in 2003.^[3]

Poetry collections

• The Company of Strangers (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University 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)

References

External links

• Peter Cooley listing in The Literary Encyclopedia
• Dr. Cooley’s Faculty Page at Tulane
• Video of Peter Cooley reading from Sacred Conversations at Tulane, circa 1998
• Amusing poke at Cooley’s author picture at Poetry Snark
• “Little Immortality Poem” by Peter Cooley
• Peter Cooley author page at Virginia Quarterly Review, with links to poems