“Because his language is so alive and spicy, Peter Campion can write about almost anything and make it memorable. His poems are equally at home in the cities of today and in the wreck we’ve made of nature. Reading him, you feel the whole weight of American poetry from Whitman through Hart Crane to Kenneth Koch, ennobling his lines and giving them both their form and their crackle.”
American Academy of Arts and Letters
March 3, 2021. 4PM EST/3PM CST. John Berryman’s Selected Letters: A Transatlantic Celebration. Peter will moderate an online reading and discussion in appreciation of John Berryman. Information here .