Poetry. "Conners's prose poem is not just a beautiful quirky moment that gives us a glimpse of the miraculous, but also an attempt to become a myth in itself. That Conners seems to get it all into one book is simply amazing. What can I say? A literary master"—Ilya Kaminsky. "Conners writes with the playfulness and kinetic energy of an action painter. His spatters of images and fragmented narratives assume the condition of an exuberant non-sense that, in changing perspective, asserts a logic of its own"—Stuart Dybek.

Author City: ROCHESTER, NY USA

Peter Conners was born September 11, 1970, in a small town called America. His published books include the prose poetry collections THE CROWS WERE LAUGHING IN THEIR TREES and OF WHISKEY AND WINTER, and the novella EMILY ATE THE WIND. His memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, was published by Da Capo Press in March 2009. He is also editor of PP/FF: AN ANTHOLOGY, published by Starcherone Books in April 2006, and author of WHITE HAND SOCIETY: THE PSYCHEDELIC PARTNERSHIP OF TIMOTHY LEARY & ALLEN GINGSBER, published by City Lights in November 2010. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Beloit Fiction Journal.

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