Peter Jay Shippy is the author of four previous collections, including A Spell of Songs and Thieves' Latin, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Twice his work has appeared in the Best American Poetry Series. Shippy has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Emerson College.

Other poems by Peter Jay Shippy in Verse Daily:
October 30, 2013:   "And he makes his hand into a soft gun" "I met you on a red day, a day that grew fins..."

Books by Peter Jay Shippy:

Other poems on the web by Peter Jay Shippy:
"Twisted"
"Self-Portrait & Other Calculations"
"The Post-Graduates"
Two poems
"Portrait of God on Work Release"
Three poems
Three poems
"October, First Snow"
Two poems
"Arf"
Two poems
"Soul"
Two poems

Peter Jay Shippy's Website.