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Peter Bushyeager

Peter Bushyeager’s poetry has recently appeared in New American Writing, Sensitive Skin, Local Knowledge, Café Review, Live Mag!, Boog Reader 12, and the anthology From Somewhere to Nowhere. His poetry collections include In the Green Oval and Citadel Luncheonette, and he edited Wake Me When It’s Over: Selected Poems of Bill Kushner (Talisman House 2018). Peter’s reviews, interviews, and articles have appeared in publications that include Gathering of the Tribes, Rain Taxi, Poetry Project Newsletter, Talisman, The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: 20th Century, and the anthologies What Is Poetry, and The World in Time and Space.

November Again

Peter Bushyeager

It’s November and there’s a steady stream without stagnation or scum as glitter resurfaces in the trash mound political races raise fear and candidates come clean about dark money cast into shady corners. Po...

Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #10 – Peter Bushyeager, Patricia Carragon and George Wallace

Peter Bushyeager

Sensitive Skin magazine presents yet another in our seemingly endless series of online readings during quarantine! This week's show, recorded live via Zoom on May 28, 2020, features: - Peter Bushyeager (0:00) - Patricia...

Shirt Context

Peter Bushyeager

The poet doesn't know shit. He stands by the telephone which will ring in one second the dish will break at the moment of regret and this is boring but there's movement at the edges. It's a clean sunrise, birds are...

Poet Story

Peter Bushyeager

Poet Story The steel taps on Mayakovsky’s size 13 boots scraped the smear off his surface when he wrote while striding the Rockaway boardwalk each metallic rap on the planks a refugee thought gathered so he cou...