Allan Peterson's poems have appeared (or will soon appear) in Gettysburg Review, Marlboro Review, Shenandoah, Green Mountains Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blackbird, Typo, Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, and Quarterly West. He is the winner of the 2002 Arts & Letters Poetry Prize and a recipien of fellowships from the Florida Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Anonymous Or and Stars On A Wire, and Small Charities.

About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Megan Harlan, John Haines, Lisa Furmanski, Veronica Patterson, Susan Tichy, Allan Peterson, F. J. Bergmann, Matt Yurdana, Kwame Dawes, mar montas, Mary Molinary, Jessica Goodfellow, Bradley Greenburg

Other poems by Allan Peterson on Verse Daily:

April 8, 2003:  "The Totality of Facts"   "The laughing gull that flew behind the fencepost..."