Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson is a poet, novelist, and short story writer known for prose poetry. He has published several books of prose poems, novels, and a story collection. His work has earned NEA and Rhode Island Council on the Arts fellowships and a James Laughlin Award for Miracles & Mortifications. He founded and edited The Prose Poem: An International Journal and is a Providence College emeritus professor. He has published with MadHat Press, which issued his collected prose poems, the novel-in-stories SHOT, and the anthology A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly, which he edited.