Ahearn,Barry                            

Albrecht,Thomas                        

Burke,Molly                                

Codr,Dwight                           

Cooley,Peter                                   

Desai,Gaurav                                      

Dinerstein,Joel                             

Edmonds,Dale                                   

Elmwood,Victoria                    Foster,Ken                                

Foy,Roslyn                             

Gelley,Ora                                         

Goldman,Jonathan                                   Johnson,T.R.                                                       Kaufmann,David        

Koritz,Amy                                            

Kuczynski,Michael                             

Leland,Jacob                                       

Letter,Joe                                          

Lewis,Nghana                                   

Livingston,Judith                          

Mark,Rebecca                                    

Morris,Paula                                         

Munkhoff,Richelle                              

Nair,Supriya                                        

Oldman,Elizabeth                                     

Pizer,Donald                                        

Rothenberg,Molly       

Smith,Felipe                                          

Snare,Gerald                                        

Toulouse,Teresa                         

Travis,Molly           

  Peter Cooley

Professor of English

Norman Mayer Room 223

Telephone: (504) 862-8174

Fax: (504) 862-8958

E-mail: cooley@tulane.edu

Peter Cooley is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing. He has a B.A. in Humanities from Shimer College, an M.A. in Art and Literature from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Modern Letters from The University of Iowa, where he was a student in the Writers’ Workshop. His seven books of poetry are The Company of Strangers, The Room Where Summer Ends, Nightseasons, The Van Gogh Notebook, The Astonished Hours, Sacred Conversations and A Place Made of Starlight. In 2007, his publisher, Carnegie Mellon, will release his new volume Divine Margins.  Peter’s poems have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic and in over one hundred anthologies including most recently The Best American Poetry  2002, The Manthology, Poets on Place and  Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website. From 1970-2000 he was Poetry Editor of The North American Review.  His particular interests are creative writing, women poets and contemporary literature. In addition to workshops in creative writing, he has taught Surrealism in Contemporary Poetry, Confessional Poets and Poetics for Poets. Peter has given recent poetry readings of his own work on the Ohio Poetry Circuit, in Spain and France, in New Zealand, where he was the U.S. Representative to the International Poetry Festival,  in the Czech Republic, and in Cape Town, South Africa. He received the Inspirational Professor Award in 2001 and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award in 2003.