Peter Money, a former student of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg, has published starting in 1985. His collections of poems include These Are My Shoes (1991), Minor Roads (1993), A Big Yellow (1996), Instruments (1997), Between Ourselves (1998), Finding It: Selected Poems (2000/2001), and his book with the Arab Modernist poet Saadi Yous[s]ef, To day --- Minutes only (2004). His long poems appear in The Hawai'i Review and Bongos (Japan), as well as poems and articles in magazines & journals such as The American Poetry Review, The Sun, the North of Boston issue of Rivendell, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The North Dakota Quarterly, Hummingbird, Compound Eye, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Provincetown Arts, Solo, Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, First Intensity, Art/Life, Hunger Mountain's Vermonter feature, Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), Yinna (Bahamas), and others. Garrison Keillor chose Peter's poem "Whiteout" to read on The Writer's Almanac NPR radio program. He has traveled around the world, studied in Ireland, and has taught at Brooklyn College, The Community College of Vermont, Lebanon College, and in schools in California. His articles, reviews, and new poems are forthcoming from The Swansea Review (UK), Yinna: Journal For The Bahamas Association For Cultural Studies, Poetry Salzburg Review, and elsewhere. Peter's interview with writer Lawrence Fixel appears in the Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series, and his interview with Allen Ginsberg appears in the 1992 issue of Provincetown Arts magazine. He is the past founder of the literary journals Writers' Bloc and Lame Duck. Peter Money has read and lectured at venues such as City Lights Books in San Francisco, The Knitting Factory in New York City, The Norwich Public Library, Dartmouth College, The Hotchkiss School, and as a guest author in schools and colleges. In Februrary of 2004 Peter was a guest author at St. Andrews College, in North Carolina, where he gave a reading and met with students. He continues to read and teach whenever invited. The Chiron Review (Kansas) published a feature on him in 2003 which includes several of his poems, an extensive interview, and photos. His degrees are from Oberlin College (B.A., English), Brooklyn College (MFA), and San Jose State University (MLS). In addition to his formal education, Peter has studied painting and has traveled to India, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, Cyprus, France, Ireland, and elsewhere. Reference to poet Peter Money also appears in Marvel Comics' Unstable Molecules, issue number three (March
2003), and in Marvel)2s bound edition Fantastic Four Legends Vol.1:
Unstable Molecules, by James Sturm (July 2003). Peter Money is presently working on an epic poem centered around Mt. Ascutney and has several other manuscripts yet to be published. Currently, Peter teaches the poetry workshop and a film course at Lebanon College, is a Faculty Senate co-chair, chair of the Lebanon College Writing and Literature Department, and the founder and series editor of Lebanon College Press Series (which publishes Across Borders: An International Literary Annual). Peter is also on the faculty of the brand new Center For Cartoon Studies, America's only two-year cartoon school. He is sometimes asked to judge contests for college level poetry and fiction and, recently, has been asked to be the editor of a new small press book company (Harbor Mountain Press), to publish six books of poetry a year. He is married to a librarian (a fellow Oberlin student who grew up in Vermont and Provincetown). Together with their two young children they have been engaged in Waldorf education.
(Current as of July 2006)