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Peter Cooley is emeritus professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. He is the author of 12 books of poetry including The Van Gogh Notebook, Divine Margins, and Night Bus to the Afterlife. He is also the Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature. A former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, Cooley lives In New Orleans.
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