PETER JOHNSON
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire (1983)
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Selected Publications:
• While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems, MadHat Press, 2023.
• Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, co-editor with Cassandra Atherton, Madhat Press, 2023.
• Shot: A Novel in Stories, MadHat Press, 2021.
• Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty: A Short Primer on the Prose Poem, with Selected Letters from Russell Edson, essays, 2020 from MadHat Press.
• A Cast-iron Airplane That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry, edited by Peter Johnson. MadHat Press, 2019.
• Old Man Howling at the Moon, prose poems, from MadHat Press, 2018.
• The Night Before Krampus: A Christmas Carol, 2017.
• The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez, a middle-grade novel (HarperCollins, June, 2014)
• Out of Eden, young adult novel (Namelos Press, February, 2014)
• The Amazing Adentures of John Smith, Jr., AKA Houdini, a novel (HarperCollins, 2012)
• Rants and Raves: Selected and New Prose Poems, 2010 (White Pine Press).
• Loserville, novel, 2009 (Front Street; namelos).
• What Happened, novel, 2007 (Front Street; namelos).
• Eduardo & I , a book of prose poems, 2006 (White Pine Press).
• Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, guest editor, 2005
• I’m a Man, a collection of short stories, 2003 (White Pine Press).
• Miracles & Mortifications, a book of prose poems, 2001 (White Pine Press).
• The Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor, 2000
• Pretty Happy!, a book of prose poems, 1997 (White Pine Press).
Awards:
• Book of the Year for RI Secondary Schools for Out of Eden (2016)
• Houdini chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the “Best Children’s Books of 2012.”
• Houdini chosen by RI Center for the Book to represent RI at the National Book Fair in Washington, DC.
• Creative Writing Fellowship from Rhode Island Council on the Arts (2010)
• The Paterson Prize for What Happened (2008)
• Book of the Year for RI Secondary Schools for What Happened (2008)
• Creative Writing Fellowship from Rhode Island Council on the Arts (2002)
• James Laughlin Award from The Academy of American Poets (2001)
• Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1999)
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Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you,
— Peter Johnson
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