Author Description

Review "Most of Peabody's poems are wryly humorous. He's not a mean-spirited poet, even when attacking those he doesn't care for. In an age when the cruel lampoon has taken a firm hold, Peabody's compassion for human frailty is especially endearing." -- Kevin Bezner, Washington Book ReviewAgent Provocateur Apostasy Art Students Attachments An Audience With Angels Auto-da-fe Berlin Big Beat Plays Frisco The Black Velvet Girl Bruges Canned Peaches Carolina Summer Chimichanga Christmas Break Clichy Cointreau Coming Down A Tennessee Mountain Sideways Easter In Georgetown Eastern Shore College Envoi Father Grandier Of Loudun Figures In The Open Forbidden Lovers Forgotten The Girl From Cleveland Park Gone Fishing Guinness On The Quay Hitching I Have Always Lived In Basements I'm A Television Baby I'm In Love With The Morton Salt Girl Imaginary People Introducing Snakes To Ireland Lady Nebraska The Laughing Man Lazy Man's Gumbo Lost At Sea Malaise Malay Diary Manna Mannequin City The Masochist Melinda Mulligatawny My Eyes Slide East Toward Monet The Mystery Of Ears Of Making Many Books There Is No End Old Salts Penelope: The Movie Peyote Pilgrim Piedmont A Poem Called Politics Poetry Of Place The Rape Of The Romantic Abstract Reading Alan Watts At The Beach A Recurring Dream Reptilian Fricasse Retreat The Round-up Salome Seamed Stockings Segue Snake Eyes Southern Trilogy Strawberry Blonde The Temptation Wolf We're Siamese Twins: We Sleep Together What I Like About A Rifle -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® About the Author Richard Peabody is well-known as a poet, teacher, and editor. He was born in Washington, DC, and has published four books of poems and two books of stories. He currently teaches in the Johns Hopkins University Part-time graduate Writing Program and at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Peabody is the founding editor of Gargoyle Magazine, and co-editor of the Mondo series (Mondo Barbie, et al.) for St, Martin's Pres. He lives in Ar