Poetry. Winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. "Johnson's prose poetry presents a consciousness that combines the immediacy of personal observations with the darker, inner urgencies of the unconscious. His supremely quirky mind enables him to combine the strange and the familiar, the most urgent bursts of lyricism with disarmingly unemotional statements. He leaves the reader with a new appreciation of a genre that, perhaps more than any other genre, makes the ordinary extraordinary"-Michel Delville. Peter Johnson is the author PRETTY HAPPY and LOVE POEMS FOR THE MILLENIUM, both available at SPD. Founder and editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Johnson has edited the SPD title, THE BEST OF THE PROSE POEM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL.

Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA

Peter Johnson was born and reared in Buffalo, New York. He teaches creative writing and children's literature at Providence College and is editor of THE BEST OF THE PROSE POEM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL. His prose poems and fiction have appeared in Field, DENVER QUARTERLY, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Quarterly West, North Dakota Quarterly, The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry, Beloit Fiction Journal, and other magazines. His books include RANTS AND RAVES: SELECTED AND NEW PROSE POEMS (White Pine Press, 2010), EDUARDO & I (White Pine Press, 2006), I'M A MAN (White Pine Press, 2003) and MIRACLES & MORTIFICATIONS (White Pine Press, 2001), winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets.