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. He is the father of poet Nicole Cooley.

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 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.

Bibliography

Poetry
Collections

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)
World Without Finishing (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018)
List of poems

References

External links
 Peter Cooley listing in The Literary Encyclopedia
 Peter Cooley’s faculty page, Tulane University
 
 Peter Cooley author page at Virginia Quarterly Review, with links to poems

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Category:American male poets
Category:Poets Laureate of Louisiana
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