Peter LaBerge is the author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes Books, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and New England Review. LaBerge received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from New York University, where he studied as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. He is the founder and editor in chief of The Adroit Journal and the founder of Ellipsis Writing. For more, visit peterlaberge.com.
Cinema
Spring 2025
The Indisputable
The Kenyon Review · “The Indisputable” by Peter LaBerge For Brad McGarry Bellaire, OhioInside the house, above the basementwhere D. J. bloodies Brad, there isa white bowl of lemons sick […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2022
Blue Peony
The Kenyon Review · “Blue Peony” by Peter LaBerge We didn’t know it then, but already we had begun our version of opening: ultraviolet in the wind-wound June. Here we […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2022
Century Flower
The Kenyon Review · “Century Flower” by Peter LaBerge All spring, every beard-thorn in the bathroom sink recalled the needle-thin stem—one hand between bare pecs, slowly feeling for it somewhere […]
Sept/Oct 2022
USA Today Says the Pacific Coast Highway is Falling into the Ocean
But in the dream, somehow, it was new. It was
just us—just us down the curved tongue
of California, and the faux wind
of the Mustang you rented