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Peter Campion

Peter Campion is the author, most recently, of One Summer Evening at the Falls. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he is Professor in the Department of English and MFA writing program at the University of Minnesota.

Poetry

Winter 2011

Letter from Ohio

By Peter Campion

The green so green it must be chemical. Faint drift of charcoal smoke. Rock radio. The pink azaleas thrusting at the blue. And all the same desires come crashing back: […]