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WorkshopsThe Burlington County Poets host monthly workshops, typically on the second Thursday of every month, at Burlington County Library from 7-9 p.m. Check the library calendar for details.
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EventsHow To Get Your Poetry Published by Anna EvansAnna is available to give this hour long seminar. Contact her by email to book a date |
Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he operated heavy equipment, managed a night club and drove a cab. He is a consultant to the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's poetry program and has been an educational advisor to several PBS television series on poetry including Poetry Heaven and Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers. He was the first recipient of the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship at the Louhelen Baha'i School and has received awards for writing and teaching from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. He is the founder and director of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway held annually in Cape May.
"Peter Murphy's superb Stubborn Child unflinchingly enacts and examines his own painful childhood, then moves to the often damaged and compromised lives of the high school students he teaches. Like the best delineators of unhappiness, he also brings humor to his task, the dark humor of a survivor. And indeed this is a survivor's book, both transforming and transformative - in the end, Murphy the man able to love and affirm, Murphy the poet able to raise the unruly and the tawdry to the level of art."- Stephen Dunn