Peter Klappert Biography

American poet (born 1942)

Peter Klappert (born 1942 in Rockville Centre, New York) is an American poet.

Life

He grew up in West Hempstead, New York, and Rowayton, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Iowa, with an M.A. and an M.F.A.

His work has appeared in AGNI, Antaeus, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Ploughshares, AWP Chronicle, Lambda Book Report, The Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review.

He was Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University, and Writer-in-Residence at College of William and Mary.

He taught at Rollins College and New College of Florida, and George Mason University before retiring in 2006.

Awards

  • 1971 Yale Younger Poets Award
  • 1973 National Endowment for the Arts grant
  • Ingram Merrill Foundation grant
  • Yaddo resident fellowship
  • The MacDowell Colony resident fellowship
  • La Fondation Karolyi resident fellowship
  • The Millay Colony for the Arts resident fellowship

Works

  • "The Cat Lover", AGNI 4, 1975
  • "Enrichissez Vous", AGNI 4, 1975
  • "Variegations", AGNI 4, 1975
  • "Satan Who Is Most Noisy When He Whispers", AGNI 12, 1980
  • "If Innocent", Ploughshares, Summer 1981
  • "The Prime of Life", Ploughshares, Winter 1991-92
  • "CHOKECHERRIES"; "IMPATIENS"; "DOSTOEVSKI SAID MAN"; "CLOSING IN NEW HAVEN"; "THE COURTSHIP OF THE MORTICIANS"; "J'ACCUSE", Beltway Poetry Quarterly Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2002
  • "CEREBRAL CORTEX", Six Gallerys Press
  • How I Stopped Writing Poetry and Other Poems
  • Chokecherries: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1999. Orchises. 2000. ISBN:978-0-914061-81-6.
  • Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors. Marlboro, Vt.: Six Gallery Press. 2008. ISBN:978-0-9810091-1-7.
  • Idiot Princess of the Last Dynasty. New York: Knopf. 1984. ISBN:978-0-394-51383-6.
  • '52 pick-up: scenes from the conspiracy:: a do*entary:: a poem in 52 scenes, 2 jokers and an extra ace of spades. Orchises Press. 1984. ISBN:978-0-914061-02-1.
  • Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1971. ISBN:978-0-300-01453-2.

Anthologies

  • William Smart, ed. (1984). "Stages of a Journey Inland". From Mt. San Angelo: stories, poems & essays. *ociated University Presses. p.:105. ISBN:978-0-8453-4508-5.

References

    External links

    • "In His Own Words—An interview with poet Peter Klappert", Poetry Santa Cruz
    • "In the Poet's Spotlight for May 2007: Peter Klappert"

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