and Recognitions

”Soul-poppingly magnetic.”—The Rumpus

“From the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural translator, Allan Peterson’s poems convey the consistent message that the ordinary isn’t.” ⏤Burrow Press

“Allan Peterson’s meditations on domestic tranquility and ecocatastrophe are so smart that they could actually make you smarter” — Stephanie Burt, Boston Review

“Though Peterson occasionally leads you like Wile E. Coyote into thin air, he is more likely to deliver you. He is Expecting The Momentous” unpublished manuscript a finalist for 2015 Colorado Poetry Prize 

“Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts introduces us to a poet capable of changing from the personal and interior to the global and exterior in a single work, sometimes in a single line.”—Shelf Awareness

“Mars on Life,” first published by The Seventh Quarry (Wales), chosen as the Best Science Fiction Poem published in the UK in 2010 by Hilltop Press 







Selected Exhibtions:

Glyph Cafe and Art Space, Portland, Oregon

Watercolor USA Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri

“Drawn to New York,” Invitational Exhibition, Lederer Gallery, State University of New York, Geneseo, 

“None of the Above: An Assembling,” Minnesota Center for the Book Arts

Allan Peterson/Frances Dunham, Circle Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

National Drawing Exhibition,Edinboro College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania

Invitational Pencil & Paper Drawing Exhibition, Loyola University Gallery, New Orleans, LA

APPALACHIAN NATIONAL DRAWING EXHIBITIONBoone, North Carolina

PAPER/CLAY NATIONALMemphis State University, Memphis Tennessee


Poetry Prizes:

Alligator Juniper Poetry Prize

American Poet Prize, American Poetry Journal

OMNIVORE 3rd Annual Boom Chapbook Prize from Bateau Press

Editor’s Chapbook Choice by The Aurorean Review 

First Annual Dos Cosas Prize from Words and Images Journal

American Poet Prize from American Poetry Journal  

Comstock Review, Muriel Craft Bailey Prize 

Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts and The State of Florida 



Poetry Published:

Shenandoah; Blackbird; The Paris Review Daily; Denver Quarterly; The Nation; The Believer; The Rumpus The Seventh Quarry (Wales); Revival (Ireland);Tusculum Review; Subtropics; Crazyhorse; Zócalo; Bennington Review;Cincinnati Revew; decomP; New Millennium; Prime Number; Poets & Artists (Oranges and Sardines); Verdad; Press 1; Epiphany; Cloudbank; Epiphany: Prick of the Spindle; Plume; Riverwind; Salamander; Weary Blues Arts Journal (Ireland);The Furnace Review; Natural Bridge; Disquieting Muse Quarterly; Bolts of Silk (Scotland); Valparaiso Review; The Guidebook.org; Avatar; White Whale Review; Southern Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA; New Binary Press Anthology (Cork, Ireland); Pear Noir!; The Economy Magazine, Redactions, Memorious; American Literary Review; A Public Space; Blue Mesa Review; Cordite (Australia); West Branch; Thrush; Innisfree; Mississippi Review; Berkeley Poetry Review; Blunderbuss; Better; 32 Poems, others