Peter Fortunato, Guest Author November 18-22

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November 17, 2019

Peter Fortunato, Guest Author November 18-22

This week we welcome Peter Fortunato as our guest author. Peter grew up in Wappingers Falls and Poughkeepsie, New York at a family run restaurant and resort much like the one in his novel, Carnevale (Fomite Press, November 2019). Peter's father was a stage magician and singer and his mother an extraordinary seamstress and cook. He is a poet, painter, performer, ceremony maker, and hypnotherapist, recently retired from teaching at Cornell University and Ithaca College.Peter has been a Buddhist for many years, as well as a shaman, Reiki master practitioner, and Tarot mage. His poetry collections include Entering the Mountain (Cayuga Lake Books, 2019) and Late Morning (Cayuga Lake Books, 2013). Find out more about Peter here and follow him on facebook here.

Welcome, Peter.

-- sdl

Posted by The Best American Poetry on November 17, 2019 at 06:16 PM in Announcements, Feature | Permalink

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Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman