Department of English
Peter Campion
Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: pcampion2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 5739
Office: Goldstein 212
Education
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1998; M.A., Boston University, 2000.
Teaching Areas
- Creative Writing
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Prosody
- Poetry and the Visual Arts
Published Work
Books
- Other People, (University of Chicago Press) 2005.
- Mitchell Johnson, (Terrence Rogers Fine Art) 2004.
Recent Essays and Poems
- "Two Minutes and Counting: On Kim Frohsin." Kim Frohsin: Two Minutes and Counting. Kim Frohsin. San Francisco: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 2007.
- "The Population." Reprinted in The Poetry Daily Anthology, Sourcebooks: (March) 2007.
Biographical Note
Peter Campion has held a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lecturership at Stanford University. His poetry and prose have appeared recently in The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, Parnassus, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Tikkun, The Yale Review and elsewhere. His monograph on the painter Joseph McNamara was published by The Seven Bridges Foundation, and his catalog essay on the painter Terry St. John was published by the Hackett-Freedman Gallery.
In April of 2007, Campion will give a poetry reading at Boston University, and on April 17th, he will participate in a panel on poetry and the visual arts, entitled "Poetry at the Pulitzer," at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, Missouri.
Other Interests
- Film Noir
- Fly-fishing
- Jazz
- Major League Baseball
- Travel
- Visual Arts
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