Assistant Professor Peter Streckfus is the recipient a 2013 Rome Prize Fellowship in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received grants and fellowships from other institutions including the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, the Peter S. Reed Foundation, the University of Alabama, and George Mason University, where he completed his MFA in 2000.

Books Authored

The Cuckoo. Yale Series of Younger Poets. Yale University Press, Cambridge, MA: 2004 Poetry collection, 64 pages.

Poems

“Time Ghazal.” The New Republic. Washington, DC. (Forthcoming.)

"The Reader.” West Branch. Stadler Center for Poetry, Lewisburg, PA. (Forthcoming.)

“Bildungsroman.” The New Republic 24:11: 43. Washington, DC: July 12, 2012.

“Body of Water,” "Body of Moving and Light."  Pleiades 32:1. Pleiades Press, St. Louis, MO: 2011.

"Body of Dreams." Slate. www.slate.com: August 16, 2011.

"Purgatorio." Poem-a-day. www.poets.org. The Academy of American Poets: 2011.

"Some Hand Shadows" (a sequence of nine poems). The Seattle Review 4:2: 211-210. Seattle, WA: 2011.

"Idiot Bigmouth Leads Us to a Gathering of Birds" (video collaboration with artist John Davis). Rabbit Light Movies. www.rabbitlightmovies.com: Summer, 2010. ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. Berlin, Germany: 2010.

"Third Golden Erring (This Middle Life)" (a sequence of nine poems). New Orleans Review 35:2: 103 –112. New Orleans, LA: 2009.

"A Bridge" (sequence of five poems). Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics 7: 76–83. Danbury, CT: 2009.

"Second Golden Erring (Our Father)" (a sequence of seven poems). Chicago Review 54:4: 31–35. Chicago, IL: 2009.

"Transmigration" (sequence of five poems). Colorado Review XXXIV:1: 124-128. Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University: 2007.

"Idiot Bigmouth Leads Us to a Gathering of Birds," "The Author of this Text." Practice: New Writing and Art 1: 62–63. Practice Press, Mill Valley: 2006.

"The Organum" (sequence of ten poems). Slope 20. www.slope.org: 2004.

"When Ronald Reagan Was a Boy," "Journey to the West" (republications). Matrix 64: 56–57. Concordia University, English Department, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: 2003.

"After Words," "Why I Slept with Him." Beloit Poetry Journal 53:3: 5–6. Alice James Books, Farmington, ME: 2003.

"Event" (six pages in length), "Journey to the West." Slope 15. www.slope.org: 2002.

"Retreat," "The Dung Pile," The Bird" (with an "Introduction" by Eric Pankey). Pleiades 22:2: 50–54. Pleiades Press, St. Louis, MO: 2002.

"Model of a Tree Growing in the Path of a Spiral," "The Celery Cutters' Song." Natural Bridge 5: 102–103. University of Missouri, English Department, St. Louis, MO: 2001.

"When Ronald Reagan Was a Boy." Phoebe 29:1: 24. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA: 2000.

"Death and a Fig," "The Carpenter." Phoebe 27:1: 1–2. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA: 1998.

Anthologized Poems

"After Words." Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers + Artists. Nan Cuba, ed. Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX: 2008.

"Encephalitis," "Memories are Nothing, Today is Important," "Ode," "When Ronald Reagan was a Boy." Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets, 1951–1977. Mercer University Press, Macon, GA: 2006.

Criticism and Essays

"Influence, The Wormwood Star of History: Czelsaw Milosz's 'The Separate Notebooks'"; (article, 2000 words). At Length. atlengthmag.com: 2012.

"Three Questions" (pedagogy essay, 1000 words). Poets on Teaching. ed. Joshua Maria Wilkinson. University of Iowa Press. Iowa City, Iowa: 2010.

"Seeking the Fugitive Self" (review/article, 5000 words). Poetry Flash 290. J. Jenkins, Berkeley, CA: 2003.