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Poems by Peter Schmitt
ISBN 0-914278-52-5
$6.95 US

The first book by a Miami poet who recently saw an unprecedented three poems from it featured in a single year (2003) on Garrison Keillor’s NPR show “The Writer’s Almanac.”

“A poet well-launched upon a serious poetic career, a man worth watching.”   —Anthony Hecht

About the Author

Born in Miami in 1958, Peter Schmitt was educated at Amherst College, Cambridge University, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry, The Quarterly, The Southern Review, and The Nation, which awarded him a 1988 Discovery Prize, and he recently received an Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He teaches at the University of Miami.