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SHOT: A Novel in Stories

Posted on September 9, 2021By Peter Johnson

“The high-compression stories in Peter Johnson’s hyper-readable Shot open in 4th gear and accelerate from there.  Take “Pretty Girl” which begins: “So you ask, ‘How could anyone so drop-dead gorgeous be afraid of mirrors?’” The considerable underlying art in these stories is matched by their fresh energy and flat out fun. What this book has common with Johnson’s poetry is Read More ...

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The Night Before Krampus

Posted on December 7, 2017By Peter Johnson

It’s two days before Christmas and a quiet Rhode Island town is about to be visited by a number of unexpected guests, among them a pair of very different Krampuses, not to mention a few Beasties. Are they there to protect Christoph, or to exact revenge with the aid of a heartless and monstrous Wolf? Read More ...

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Old Man Howling at the Moon

Posted on November 27, 2018By Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson has long been acclaimed by such poets as Russell Edson and Charles Simic as one of the masters of the prose poem. In his new book, Old Man Howling at the Moon, he continues his exploration of the genre, exhibiting his usual comic touch. Johnson calls these new poems “complaints” and traces his Read More ...

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Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty

Posted on February 17, 2021By Peter Johnson

Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the prose poem and is worth buying for Russell Edson’s correspondence alone. Peter Johnson’s essays and interviews are filled with imaginative insights on poetic form, the nature of humor and the grotesque in contemporary poetry, the problem of genre, Read More ...

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A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly

Posted on December 12, 2019By Peter Johnson

A solid collection of prose poems written by some of the best American practitioners of the genre. It also provides a good way of looking at the prose poem as a legitimate genre by focusing on what the poets themselves have to say about their own work. “A Cast-Iron Aeroplane is at once a fun Read More ...

Permalink to: The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

Posted on April 12, 2017By Peter Johnson

This heartfelt story about school, friendship, and family is perfect for readers who can’t get enough of such middle grade favorites as Jerry Spinelli and Gary D. Schmidt. From acclaimed author Peter Johnson, The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez is a novel that will make you laugh, cry, and appreciate your family all the Read More ...

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Miracles & Mortifications

Posted on April 12, 2017By Peter Johnson

“Miracles & Mortifications is a poet’s atlas, and it happens to be exactly the right tour guide, for these poems are comic, sexual, and endlessly inventive. They are poems of appreciation and discovery; poems that prove there is such a thing as the American prose poem.” — Russell Edson Order Now From Amazon (Click Logo Read More ...

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What Happened

Posted on April 12, 2017By Peter Johnson

An unnamed sixteen-year-old is the narrator of this impressionistic and fragmented story of two brothers who learn that the disappearance of their father is only the tip of his mystery and only a sliver of what really happened. HONORS and AWARDS: Best New Books for the Classroom — Book Links Books for the Teen Age Read More ...

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The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr., AKA Houdini

Posted on April 12, 2017By Peter Johnson

For fans of Jerry Spinelli’s Maniac Magee, Gary D. Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars, and Jack Gantos’s Joey Pigza Books comes a hilarious and poignant slice-of-life novel from critically acclaimed author and poet Peter Johnson. When an author comes to speak to his class in a rundown area of Providence, Houdini decides to make money by Read More ...

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Rants and Raves

Posted on April 12, 2017By Peter Johnson

“Johnson’s supremely quirky mind enables him to combine the strange and familiar, the most urgent bursts of lyricism with disarmingly unemotional statements. He leaves the reader with a new appreciation of a genre that, perhaps more than any other genre, makes the ordinary extraordinary.” — Michel Delville, The American Prose Poem “Peter Johnson writes with Read More ...

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Young Adult Novels

The following young adult novels are intended for young adult or adult readers. Click on their covers for reviews and possible teacher guides.

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Mid-Grade Novels

The following mid-grade novels are intended for middle grade and above readers. Click on their covers for reviews and possible teacher guides.

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Prose Poetry & Short Fiction

The following books of prose poetry and short fiction are intended for young adult or adult readers.

Shot: A Novel in Short Stories Just Published

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Conversation on and Reading of Prose Poetry Between Peter Johnson and Cassandra Atherton

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Prose Poetry Reading and Launch of My Anthology

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Another Visit to DeLasalle Middle School at the end of March

Posted onApril 26, 2019April 26, 2019Leave a comment

About sixty sixth graders read The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez at DeLasalle. I went to visit, and their questions were excellent. They all wish there were more books about kids like them, something most publishers seem clueless about. Look forward to coming again next years.

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Another Great Visit to North Dartmouth Middle School

Posted onApril 26, 2018April 26, 2019Leave a comment

I had another terrific visit to North Dartmouth Middle School on Friday, February 16. 300 6th graders read The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez. They had great questions prepared for me, and then they had a contest where each cluster chose an object poem to represent them. Some of the best object poems I’ve ever Read More …

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