Peter Campion Explained

Peter Campion
Occupation:	Poet, professor
Citizenship:	American
Genre:	Poetry
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship

Peter Campion (born 1976) is an American poet. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA, and from Boston University with an MA.^[1] He taught at Washington College,^[2] Ashland University, and Auburn University.^{[3] [4]} He currently teaches at University of Minnesota and heads the Department of Creative Writing there.^[5]

His work has appeared in AGNI,^[6] ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry,^[7] Slate,^[8] and The Yale Review. He won a Levis Reading Prize, for The Lions.^[9]

He was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University,^[10] a Theodore Morrison Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Guggenheim Fellow.^[11] 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.^[12] He currently edits the literary journal Great River Review, published by the University of Minnesota Creative Writing Program.^[13]

Works

• Book: Other People. University of Chicago Press. 2005. 978-0-226-09274-4.
• Book: The Lions. University of Chicago Press . 2009. 978-0-226-09310-9 .
• Book: El Dorado. University of Chicago Press. 2013. 978-022-607-725-3.
• Book: Radical as Reality Form and Freedom in American Poetry. University of Chicago Press. 2019. 978-022-666-337-1.
• Book: One Summer Evening at the Falls . 2021 . University of Chicago Press . 9780226737256 .

External links

• http://www.petercampion.net
• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/peter-campion

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fried . Daisy . Peter Campion . The Poetry Foundation . 2011-05-12.
2. Web site: Peter Campion, Blackbird . Blackbird.vcu.edu . 2011-05-12.
3. Web site: Peter Campion English Faculty . Media.cla.auburn.edu . 2011-05-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726153215/http://media.cla.auburn.edu/english/people/display.cfm?PersonID=2407 . 2011-07-26 . dead .
4. Web site: Swarthmore College :: English Literature :: Peter Campion . Swarthmore.edu . 2011-05-12.
5. Web site: Poet Campion accepts position at UM . StarTribune.com . 2011-04-21 . 2011-05-12.
6. Web site: AGNI Online: Nephew by Peter Campion . Bu.edu . 2011-05-12.
7. Web site: Fried . Daisy . Just Now by Peter Campion : Poetry Magazine [poem/magazine] |publisher=Poetryfoundation.org |access-date=2011-05-12].
8. Web site: Campion . Peter . "Lilacs" - By Peter Campion - Slate Magazine . Slate.com . 2007-06-26 . 2011-05-12.
9. Web site: Poet Peter Campion Wins the VCU Levis Reading Prize . Newswise.com . 2010-07-27 . 2011-05-12.
10. Web site: Faculty Profile | Stanford University Department of English . English.stanford.edu . 2011-05-12.
11. Web site: Peter Campion - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Gf.org . 2011-05-12.
12. Web site: Oxford Journals | Humanities | Literary Imagination . https://web.archive.org/web/20070225115036/http://litimag.oxfordjournals.org/ . dead . 2007-02-25 . Litimag.oxfordjournals.org . 2011-03-01 . 2011-05-12.
13. Web site: Great River Review. 2018-05-15. greatriverreview.com. 2020-05-15.