Peter Campion

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Peter Campion
Born1976 (age 4546)
OccupationPoet, professor
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater
GenrePoetry
Notable 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]

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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]

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References

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  10. "Faculty Profile | Stanford University Department of English". English.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  11. "Peter Campion - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  12. "Oxford Journals | Humanities | Literary Imagination". Litimag.oxfordjournals.org. 2011-03-01. Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  13. "Great River Review". greatriverreview.com. 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2020-05-15.