Peter Klappert

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.[1]

His work has appeared in AGNI,[2] Antaeus,[3] Atlantic Monthly, Harper's,[4] Ploughshares, AWP Chronicle, Lambda Book Report, The Gettysburg Review,[5] and The Southern Review.[6]

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.[7][8]

• 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

• "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 documentary : 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.

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