Allan Peterson is a celebrated poet and visual artist. He is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, including Amid This (2026), and Fragile Acts (2012), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. As a visual artist, Peterson has exhibited widely, including shows with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Academy of Art. His honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Fine Arts Council, among others. The former chair of the visual arts department at Pensacola State College, Peterson currently divides his time between Florida and Oregon.

• Acknowledgments,To Who It May,What Was SavedHours ago,Perceptions,Appointment,Handmade Experience,Rear View Moon,Coevolution,Say Ignorance,Naming,Implicit,All That Are Aching,Realizations,I Hovered,The Place to Ourselves,Short for Something,Nothing As It Was,Occupational Insights,Polarities,Manifest Densities,So You Kow It's Serious,Replacements,Floods,Writing and Trying,Remember the Evidence,About China,Tails Your Lose,Reductionism,Dangerous Help,All Small,Forgetting Fire,On and On,Intimate as Touching,What Are Your Wearing,Recovery,Story,Catch of Breath,Fine Print,Succession,House,Suspension,Lives Behind Us,Any Chaos,Sleight of Hand,Seeing the Yazoo,Separation Anxiety,Leaving the Body,About the Author,

Allan Peterson is a celebrated poet and visual artist. He is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, including Amid This (2026), and Fragile Acts (2012), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. As a visual artist, Peterson has exhibited widely, including shows with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Academy of Art. His honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Fine Arts Council, among others. The former chair of the visual arts department at Pensacola State College, Peterson currently divides his time between Florida and Oregon.

• Acknowledgments,To Who It May,What Was SavedHours ago,Perceptions,Appointment,Handmade Experience,Rear View Moon,Coevolution,Say Ignorance,Naming,Implicit,All That Are Aching,Realizations,I Hovered,The Place to Ourselves,Short for Something,Nothing As It Was,Occupational Insights,Polarities,Manifest Densities,So You Kow It's Serious,Replacements,Floods,Writing and Trying,Remember the Evidence,About China,Tails Your Lose,Reductionism,Dangerous Help,All Small,Forgetting Fire,On and On,Intimate as Touching,What Are Your Wearing,Recovery,Story,Catch of Breath,Fine Print,Succession,House,Suspension,Lives Behind Us,Any Chaos,Sleight of Hand,Seeing the Yazoo,Separation Anxiety,Leaving the Body,About the Author,