Peter Cooley was Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. In 2018, Carnegie Mellon University Press published his tenth book, World Without Finishing.

Other poems by Peter Cooley in Verse Daily:
May 10, 2018:   "Poem for Early Morning, Not an Aubade" "Wonderfully established, the sun across my plate..."
May 13, 2015:   "Nethering" "Heaven is only my next moment here..."
July 28, 2014:   "Washing My Face" "Rising to face him, head-on, man-to-man..."
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:
Twenty-two poems
Two poems
Five poems
Three poems
Seven poems
"Earthly, Unearthly Measurings"
Three poems
"Pastoral"
"Gate 134"
Two poems
"Third Heaven"
Three poems
"Twenty Line Sonnet"
"Sunday Afternoons With My Sister"
Five poems
"The Climbers"

Peter Cooley's Web site.

Peter Cooley According to Wikipedia.

Peter Cooley on Twitter.

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Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
March 27, 2020:   "Orange" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 25, 2020:   "Checkpoint" by David Baker
March 24, 2020:   "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Alison Pelegrin
March 27, 2019:   Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019:   "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017:   "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017:   "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017:   "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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