Peter Cooley has lived over half his life in New Orleans, where he is Professor of English at Tulane University. He is the recent recipient of an ATLAS grant from the state of Louisiana and of the Marble Faun Poetry Award from the Faulkner Society in New Orleans. Cooley is Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature.

Other poems by Peter Cooley in Verse Daily:
November 24, 2012:   "Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait, 1639'" "I heard this from the stars; it must be true..."

Books by Peter Cooley:

Other poems on the web by Peter Cooley:
"Company of the Motel Room"
"Gate 134"
Two poems
"Third Heaven"
Fifteen poems
Three poems
"Twenty Line Sonnet"
"Sunday Afternoons With My Sister"
Five poems
Three poems
Five poems
"The Climbers"

Peter Cooley According to Wikipedia.

About Night Bus to the Afterlife:

"Peter Cooley’s poetry endures, with wrought lyricism and robust imagination. This new collection brilliantly underscores the spiritual dimension of his vision, buoyed by an imagistic certainty; the poems turn on grace notes that are musical and natural, tinged by the Crescent City."
—Yusef Komunyakaa