Peter Cooley
{{Short description|American poet and professor}}
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| birth_date = November 19, 1940
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| nationality = American
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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.[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1005 The Literary Encyclopedia] Accessed August 13, 2008. 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.[http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/browse/poetry/poetry_backlist.html Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Titles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528060822/http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/browse/poetry/poetry_backlist.html |date=2010-05-28 }} Accessed August 13, 2008.
He received the Inspirational Professor Award in 2001 and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award in 2003.
[http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/english/faculty/peter-cooley.cfm Peter Cooley's faculty page], Tulane University.
Accessed August 15, 2015. On August 14, 2015 he was named Louisiana's poet laureate.{{cite news|last1=Nola.com editors|title=Tulane professor Peter Cooley is Louisiana's next poet laureate|url=http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2015/08/peter_cooley_poet_laureate_lou.html |access-date=August 15, 2015|work=The Times-Picayune|date=August 15, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Louisiana Poet Laureate |url=https://leh.org/our-work/special-initiatives/louisiana-poet-laureate/ |website=Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=5 August 2022}}{{cite web |title=Louisiana |url=https://guides.loc.gov/united-states-state-poets-laureate/hawaii-maryland#s-lib-ctab-28174969-7|website=The Library of Congress |access-date=30 July 2022}}
Bibliography
{{Incomplete list|date=October 2017}}
=Poetry=
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- {{cite book |author=Cooley, Peter |title=The company of strangers |publisher=University of Missouri Press |year=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)
- Night Bus to the Afterlife (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014)
- World Without Finishing (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018)
- The One Certain Thing (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021)
;List of poems
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!|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |
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| Company of the motel room
|2013 |{{cite magazine |author=Cooley, Peter |date=November 4, 2013 |title=Company of the motel room |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=35 |pages=59 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/04/company-of-the-motel-room }} | |
References
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External links
- [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1005 Peter Cooley listing in The Literary Encyclopedia]
- [http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/english/faculty/peter-cooley.cfm Peter Cooley’s faculty page], Tulane University
- {{YouTube|tZgrNTdYKiY|Video of Peter Cooley reading from Sacred Conversations at Tulane, circa 1998}}
- [http://www.vqronline.org/author/24/peter-cooley/ Peter Cooley author page at Virginia Quarterly Review, with links to poems]
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