{{short description|American poet (born 1942)}} {{Infobox writer | name = Peter Klappert |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1942}} |birth_place = Rockville Centre, New York, U.S. | occupation = Poet | nationality = American | alma_mater = Cornell University<br>University of Iowa |genre = Poetry }}
'''Peter Klappert''' (born 1942 in Rockville Centre, New York) is an American poet.
==Life== He grew up in West Hempstead, New York, and Rowayton, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Iowa, with an M.A. and an M.F.A.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/peter-klappert-dlb/|title=Peter Klappert Biography|website=www.BookRags.com|access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref>
His work has appeared in ''AGNI'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/P/Peter-Klappert.html|title=AGNI Online: Author Peter Klappert|website=Boston University|access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref> ''Antaeus'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aTGaAAAAIAAJ&q=klappert|title=Antæus|date=1981|publisher=Villiers Publications|isbn=9780912946795|editor-last=Halpern|editor-first=Daniel|language=en}}</ref> ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Harper's'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/subjects/PeterKlappert|title=Peter Klappert|date=March 1973|website=Harper's Magazine|access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref> ''Ploughshares'', ''AWP Chronicle'', ''Lambda Book Report'', ''The Gettysburg Review'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Klappert|first=Peter|date=Winter 1990|title=I Want, I Don't Want: The Poetry of Margaret Atwood|url=http://www.gettysburgreview.com/store/item-detail.dot?itemcode=GBR-W1990|journal=The Gettysburg Review|access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref> and ''The Southern Review''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Klappert|first=Peter|date=Winter 2000|title=The Invention of the Kirby Poem (Book Review)|url=http://thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Winter-2000/118/|journal=The Southern Review|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|volume=36|issue=1|page=196|issn=0038-4534|access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref>
He was Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University, and Writer-in-Residence at College of William and Mary.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}}
He taught at Rollins College and New College of Florida, and George Mason University before retiring in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/peter_klappert_2|title=Peter Klappert|website=Poets & Writers|access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spirit.gmu.edu/2010/12/happy-30th-birthday-creative-writing/|title=Happy 30th Birthday, Creative Writing!|date=2010-12-21|website=The Mason Spirit|access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref>
==Awards== * 1971 Yale Younger Poets Award * 1973 National Endowment for the Arts grant * Ingram Merrill Foundation grant * Yaddo resident fellowship * The MacDowell Colony resident fellowship * La Fondation Karolyi resident fellowship * The Millay Colony for the Arts resident fellowship
==Works== *[http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/1975/4-klappert-cat.html "The Cat Lover", ''AGNI 4'', 1975] *[http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/1975/4-klappert-enrich.html "Enrichissez Vous", ''AGNI 4'', 1975] *[http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/1975/4-klappert-vari.html "Variegations", ''AGNI 4'', 1975] *[http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-klappert.html "Satan Who Is Most Noisy When He Whispers", ''AGNI 12'', 1980] *[http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1178 "If Innocent", ''Ploughshares'', Summer 1981 ] *[http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3245 "The Prime of Life", ''Ploughshares'', Winter 1991-92 ] *[http://washingtonart.com/beltway/klappert.html "CHOKECHERRIES"; "IMPATIENS"; "DOSTOEVSKI SAID MAN"; "CLOSING IN NEW HAVEN"; "THE COURTSHIP OF THE MORTICIANS"; "J'ACCUSE", ''Beltway Poetry Quarterly'' Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2002] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100224051008/http://www.sixgallerypress.com/authors/pklappert.html "CEREBRAL CORTEX", ''Six Gallerys Press''] * ''How I Stopped Writing Poetry and Other Poems '' * {{cite book| title=Chokecherries: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1999 | publisher=Orchises| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vu43Dn55ItMC&q=Peter+Klappert| year=2000| isbn= 978-0-914061-81-6 }} * {{cite book| title=Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors | place=Marlboro, Vt.| publisher=Six Gallery Press| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-9810091-1-7 }} * {{cite book| title=Idiot Princess of the Last Dynasty | place=New York| publisher=Knopf| year= 1984| isbn=978-0-394-51383-6 }} * {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3UQzpjK3Yf8C&q=Peter+Klappert| title='52 pick-up: scenes from the conspiracy : a documentary : a poem in 52 scenes, 2 jokers and an extra ace of spades| publisher=Orchises Press| year= 1984| isbn= 978-0-914061-02-1 }} * {{cite book| title=Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket| place=New Haven, Conn.| publisher=Yale University Press| year=1971| isbn=978-0-300-01453-2| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/luggingvegetable66klap}}
===Anthologies=== *{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/frommtsanangelos00smar| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/frommtsanangelos00smar/page/105 105]| chapter=Stages of a Journey Inland| title=From Mt. San Angelo: stories, poems & essays| editor=William Smart| publisher=Associated University Presses| year= 1984| isbn= 978-0-8453-4508-5 }}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/interviews/klappert.html "In His Own Words—An interview with poet Peter Klappert", ''Poetry Santa Cruz''] *[http://www.carolynforonda.com/Archive/poets_spotlight_May2007.htm "In the Poet's Spotlight for May 2007: Peter Klappert"]
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