Poetry. "Peter Ramos has a gift for valuing the past, both personal and historical, without losing sight of how it can threaten the present. The immense, rich wastage of America feeds these poems. They take resonance, too, from mythic parental figures, which Ramos honors with a spareness and precision of language, holding their inconsolable power within the tension of poetic form"--Allen Grossman.
Peter Ramos' poems appear in many journals, including Indiana Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Verse, The Chattahoochee Review, and Poet Lore. In 2000, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Peter is the author of one book of poetry, Please Do Not Feed the Ghost (BlazeVox Books, 2008), and two chapbooks: Watching Late-Night Hitchcock & Other Poems (handwritten press 2004), and Short Waves (White Eagle Coffee Store Press 2003).
Reviews and Other Links
Andy Frazee on Verse blog
interview with Gregory Lawless