Peter Cooley

Biography

Peter Cooley is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently A Place Made of Starlight (2002) and Room Where Summer Ends (1999), both from Carnegie Mellon. He is professor of English at Tulane.

See Work

Spring 1986

Van Gogh, “Stairway At Auvers”

By Peter Cooley
Summer 1991

Rhapsode

By Peter Cooley
Winter 1976

Moving Away

By Peter Cooley
Summer 1996

Hunger

By Peter Cooley
Winter 1976

Landscape

By Peter Cooley
Autumn 1998

Lament

By Peter Cooley
Winter 1976

Driving Through Small Wisconsin Towns

By Peter Cooley
Spring 1986

Van Gogh, “Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saint-Marie”

By Peter Cooley
POETRY / Winter 2004

Not Stevens’ Florida

By Peter Cooley
POETRY / Winter 2004

Starwork

By Peter Cooley

There is a Florida beyond the stars.
It is the same state I find waking here,
alone with my aloneness in the dark,
all things now possible because my own.