Lee Peterson is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia (Kent State University Press) and In the Hall of North American Mammals (Cider Press Review) and a chapbook, The Needles Road (Seven Kitchens Press). Peterson's research, writing, and community interests center on issues of human rights, displacement and migration, motherhood, and the lived experiences of women and girls. She lives in Central Pennsylvania and teaches writing at Penn State University.

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Other poems on the web by Lee Peterson:
"The Language of Water"
Two poems
Two poems

Lee Peterson's Website.

About In the Hall of North American Mammals:

"The poems of Lee Peterson's In the Hall of North American Mammals explore the haunting, dangerous borders between story and reality, domestic and wild, mother and child. These poems are meditations crafted in the terror of familial love. And they are bold navigations, crossing liminal spaces, using a luminous intensity of voice to map intimacy, mortality. With lyric acuity they sound the seams between worlds, revealing mother as both 'witch and protector,' the story and its teller, one who must perform on the highwire and pray for feet fastened to the ground. Peterson's deft poems cross a ropewalk of mother-love, knowing what they dare. Hold your breath for their fierce power."
—Sally Rosen Kindred

"A grandmother, the wolf, and a landscape of hills lit by dusk and snow populate Peterson's radiant new collection. Frequently dwelling in the world of fairytale, Peterson trains her lens on mother-love and the sublime act of mothering: 'With one hand I lift you up/with the other I set you down, set you out.' Showcasing Peterson's spare images and Dickinsonian-dash-inflected lines, In the Hall of North American Mammals evokes the fierce and tender tether between mother and child."
—Shara McCallum

"Jean Valentine describes Lee Peterson's first book, Room and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia, as 'compassionate and single-mindedly alive to its high purpose.' Peterson's second full-length collection, In the Hall of North American Mammals, continues with as much heart and intention, though the subject has changed. These poems, spare and intimate, come from 'inside of the inside of [Peterson's] voice,' speaking to her daughter's place in the natural world, the world in her daughter. Splendid, moving, and enlivened, this book takes me beyond the old models and myths, beyond what I already know, to a place both familiar and strange."
—Blas Falconer