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Mark Peters, Poet
Peters lives at 130A-2 Garden Village Drive, Cheektowaga NY 14227; his e.mail address is petersm@acsu.buffalo.edu, his phone number (716) 668-5320.
So far he has had two books published: the traitorous dark bananas (Ninth Lab Chapbooks) and
Falling Down (The Runaway Spoon Press), and has had work in
Antenym,
Tinfish,
Nedge,
Lost & Found Times, The
Experioddicist and So Many Roads.
Peters lists the following contemporary poets as important to him: Alice Notely,
Charles Bernstein,
Jackson Mac Low,
Joan Retallack,
Bruce Andrews,
Mike Basinski,
Robert Creeley,
Robert Grenier,
Hank Lazer,
Jake Berry,
Bernadette Mayer and
Kenneth Goldsmith, and has a high regard for Emily Dickinson,
Basho,
John Donne,
Ted Berrigan,
Allen Ginsberg,
William Carlos Williams,
E.E. Cummings and
John Cage among earlier poets. Among critics he admires
Charles Bernstein and Joan Retallack.
About his tastes in poetry, he says, "I've been using five adjectives to describe the sort of poetry I want in, deluxe rubber chicken, the 'zine I've just started:
humorous playful 'pataphysical psychosemantic poethical
Click here for a look at "God doesn't vote," one of Peters's poems.
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