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BIO

BIO

Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and with Stanford University's Master of Liberal Arts Program.  A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, James Merrill House, Artsmith Orcas Island, Marble House Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation.  His poems have won First Prize in the River Styx International Poetry Contest, Southwest Review's Morton Marr Poetry Prize, and the Poetry Prize from The Columbia Review, and have appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure, and Persea Books' anthology of contemporary self-portrait poems, More Truly and More Strange.  He is director of the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon, which he founded in 2012.  His first collection of poetry, Deviants, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2013.  His newest collection, Mirrorforms, was published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in the fall of 2019.

Peter is available for readings, workshops, and private consultations.

Contact: pdkline (at) usfca (dot) edu

BOOKS

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PARLOR PRESS/FREE VERSE EDITIONS, 2019

STEPHEN  F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013

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POEMS & PRESS

POEMS & PRESS

POEMS

From the Fishhouse

Poetry Foundation

Voetica Anthology

Verse Daily

Terrain.org

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PROSE & PRESS

32 Poems (Interview)

Seattle City Arts (Interview)

SF Weekly (Interview)

Ploughshares (Prose)

James Merrill House  Studio 107 (Interview)

The Hive Poetry Collective - KSQD (interview)

NEWS & EVENTS

NEWS & EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Hemingway House Writer-in-Residence Reading

Reading and Conversation with Peter Kline and Brittany Perham

Thursday, June 20th, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall

The Community Library

Ketchum, Idaho

NEWS

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More Truly and More Strange

100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems

Persea Books, 2020

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Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters

Random House/Everyman's Library, 2015

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Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House

Tin House Books, 2008

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