Featured Poet Peter Schmitt!

PETER SCHMITT is the author of six books of poems, including four full-length collections:

Goodbye, Apostrophe (Regal House); Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books); Hazard Duty and Country Airport (Copper Beech). Two chapbooks, To Disappear, and Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, are with Pudding House. He is the editor of his late father’s Pan Am Ferry Tales: A World War II Aviation Memoir (McFarland).

He has received The Julia Peterkin Award (Converse College); The Lavan Award (Academy of American Poets); The “Discovery”/The Nation Prize; grants from The Florida Arts Council and an Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His poems have appeared in many leading journals, including The Hudson Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review, are widely anthologized and have been featured on NPR’s Writers Almanac. He has also worked as a reviewer of poetry and fiction, and a freelance editor of novels, short stories, poetry, and creative nonfiction. He lives and teaches in his hometown of Miami, Florida.

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Peter will be joined by a plethora of our own poets:

ALSO WELCOME THESE POETS!

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From Tere Starr's Miami Poets Soiree:         

Charles Bernstein

Jeff Dorn

Ricki Dorn

Connie Goodman-Milone

Lisa Jeffery

Marlene Kahn

Steve Liebowitz

Pat Milone

Tere Starr

 

And from Jonathan Rose’s "Famous Last Friday Poetry" group!

Swati Bagga

Don Daniels

Jonathan Rose

Cynthia Uzzolino