Peter Cooley was born and educated in the Midwest and has lived over half of his life in New Orleans, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. The former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, he received the Marble Faun Award in Poetry from the Faulkner Society and an Atlas Grant from the state of Louisiana. He has published nine previous books, eight of them from Carnegie Mellon. Married and the father of three children, he has published poems in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic and a number of anthologies.

Other poems by Peter Cooley in Verse Daily:
May 13, 2015:   "Nethering" "Heaven is only my next moment here..."
August 11, 2014:   "Rodin, 'The Walking Man'" "But when the body stands here, one foot back..."
July 28, 2014:   "Washing My Face" "Rising to face him, head-on, man-to-man..."
November 24, 2012:   "Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait, 1639'" "I heard this from the stars; it must be true..."

Books by Peter Cooley:

Other poems on the web by Peter Cooley:
Two poems
Three poems
"Pastoral"
"Company of the Motel Room"
"Gate 134"
Two poems
"Third Heaven"
Fifteen poems
Three poems
"Twenty Line Sonnet"
"Sunday Afternoons With My Sister"
Five poems
Three poems
Five poems
"The Climbers"

Peter Cooley According to Wikipedia.

About World Without Finishing:

"Peter Cooley knows the notes to the sacred songs. World Without Finishing reveals once again how close to their luminescence he interprets those songs in language such that his poems read like psalms from the constellations. Here we find wisdom in each cadenced utterance, in each spirited chord."
—Major Jackson

"Reverent and penitent, these poems are devotional in the best sense, celebrating the fruits of the earth while desiring also the ascetic’s hunger."
—David St. John