Peter Joseph Gloviczki is a teacher, a communication researcher and a poet. His poems have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, 32 Poems and elsewhere. Kicking Gravity is his first full-length collection of poems. He has reviewed poetry collections for Mid-American Review and his poems have been widely anthologized, including in Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2011). A Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of a senryu prize from Modern Haiku, he grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, where he graduated from Mayo High School. He earned his B.A. at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His research examines the implications of emerging technologies for journalism and mass communication. He lives and writes in Minneapolis.

Books by Peter Joseph Gloviczki:

Other poems on the web by Peter Joseph Gloviczki:
"Sonnet for Anne"
"A Brief Series of Accidents"
"Four A.M."
"Friday Morning Letter"

About Kicking Gravity:

"Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s short lyrics and prose poems speak to the contemporary reader, in tender, precise language, about love, the spirit, and the body, and while his poems may be short and concise, the scope of his work is without limit."
—William Reichard