Peter Klappert is an American poet who was born in 1942 in Rockville Centre, NY. He graduated from Cornell University with an M.A. and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. His work has appeared in AGNI, Antaeus, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Ploughshares, AWP Chronicle, Lambda Book Report, the Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review. He is the recipient of residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, La foundation Karolyi, and The Millay Colony for the Arts as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Ingram Merrill Foundation. In 1971, Klappert won the Yale Younger Poets Award. He was later the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University and writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary. Klappert also taught at Rollins College, New College of Florida, and George Mason University over the course of his career before retiring in 2006.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Peter Klappert
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Palmetto, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973, 1975
