Poetry Exchange featuring Nils Peterson!
Sunday, April 21st, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. PST
Via Zoom!
Poetry Exchange featuring Nils Peterson!
Please join us via Zoom as we celebrate Poetry Month! Open mic follows our featured guest.
Hosted by Lesa Medley!
Contact Lesa Medley to receive your Zoom link: lcmedley016@gmail.com
Nils Peterson is Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University where he taught in the English and Humanities Departments.
He has published poetry, science fiction, and articles on subjects as varied as golf and Shakespeare, several chapbooks, and three collections of poems The Comedy of Desire (edited and introduced by Robert Bly), A Walk to the Center of Things, and All the Marvelous Stuff. Talk in the Reading Room, was chosen by Wordrunner Press as its memoir selection in 2014. earth, water, fire, air a collection of poems each illustrated by a watercolor by Lorraine Chapparall appeared in 2016. The Dear Time of Our Talking, poems and essays about working with Robert Bly, appeared in 2020.
In 2009, he was chosen to be the first Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County.
In 2019, he was honored by SVCreates for his work as poet and teacher as the OnPage Laureate of the Year. Coleman Barks describes his poetry as “so intelligent, lonely, funny and real. Necessary….”
All the Marvelous Stuff was chosen as the best collection of poems at the 2020 San Francisco Book Fair!