Peter Campion
Peter Campion, Assistant Professor, received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, and his M.A. from Boston University. He's the author of two collections of poems, Other People (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and The Lions (University of Chicago Press, 2009,) as well as a monograph on the painter Mitchell Johnson (Terrence Rogers Fine Art, 2004.) His interests include contemporary poetry, prosody, and the relations between poetry and the visual arts.
He has held a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship at Stanford University. His poems and prose have appeared in ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New Republic, Poetry, Raritan, Slate, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He recently won a Pushcart Prize.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Literary Imagination: the Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, which is published by Oxford University Press.
Representative Publications
- The Lions. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.