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Peter Conners is an American writer, poet, editor and publisher. His nonfiction books include Cornell ’77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall (Cornell University Press, 2017); JAMerica: The History of the Jam Band and Festival Scene (Da Capo Press, 2013);  Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009);  and White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg (City Lights Books, 2010). His poetry and short fiction books include The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees (White Pine Press, 2011); Of Whiskey and Winter (White Pine Press, 2007); Emily Ate the Wind (Marick Press, 2008); and Beyond the Edge of Suffering (White Pine Press, 2022). His debut novel, Merch Table Blues, will by Manic D Press in 2022. Conners also co-founded the online literary journal, Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry & Flash Fiction, and edited the groundbreaking anthology of prose poetry and flash fiction, PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Books, 2006).

Peter Conners is Publisher and Executive Director of the award-winning nonprofit literary publisher BOA Editions. He has edited books by such notable poets as Aracelis Girmay, Chen Chen, Naomi Shihab Nye, Bruce Weigl, Erika Meitner, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Barbara Jane Reyes. In 2007, he initiated a short story publishing program in BOA Editions’s American Reader Series and has selected and edited more than a dozen collections for the series by such authors as Martha Ronk, Jessica Treat, Joseph Salvatore, and James McManus. Conners also oversaw the founding of Blessing the Boats Selections which focuses on publishing poetry collections by women of color. Books and authors he has selected for publication and edited have won dozens of prestigious awards including the James Laughlin Award, Whiting Award, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize which is given by the Academy of American Poets in recognition of “the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year.”

Peter Conners regularly reads his work and speaks at universities, conferences, bookstores, and on panels relating to poetry, fiction, editing, counterculture history, and music. In 2017, his book Cornell ’77 was included in the Grateful Dead box set collection “May ’77: Get Shown the Light” which subsequently nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Box Set.

Nonfiction Books

Cornell ’77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501704321/cornell-77/#bookTabs=1

JAMerica: The History of the Jam Band and Festival Scene (Da Capo Press, 2013 http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/home.jsp )

Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009 http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/home.jsp

White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg (City Lights Books, 2010 http://www.citylights.com/publishing/ )

Fiction

Emily Ate the Wind (Marick Press, 2008 www.marickpress.com)

Poetry Collections

The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees (White Pine Press, 2011 http://www.whitepine.org/

Of Whiskey and Winter (White Pine Press, 2007 http://www.whitepine.org/ )

Edited Anthologies

PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Books, 2006 www.starcherone.com)

References

BOA Editions, Ltd. http://www.boaeditions.org/about-us/staff-contributors/

Da Capo Press Author Page http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/author_detail.jsp?id=1002136337

City Lights Books Author Page http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100592520&fa=author&person_id=10497#content

Author Website

www.peterconners.com

External Links

Interview: Tennessee Tech “Center Stage”: https://www.facebook.com/325780220896824/videos/336845900968783

Book Review: Publisher’s Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5017-0432-1

Book Review: Los Angeles Review of Books https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/nights-of-the-mu-tron-iii-on-peter-connerss-cornell-77-and-the-mystique-of-the-grateful-dead/

Book Review: San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Acid-Christ-White-Hand-Society-reviews-2455177.php

Interview: Best American Poetry http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2010/11/meet-the-press-nin-andrews-interviews-peter-conners-publisher-boa-editions-ltd-.html

Interview: Poetry Society of America http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/interviews/BOA/

Interview: Blues Greece http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/writer-poet-peter-conners-talks-about-grateful-dead-leary

Audio: NPR Books Review http://www.npr.org/2009/08/20/105898803/books-about-music-they-dont-have-to-sound-flat

Audio: Interview for The Grateful Dead Hour http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/peter-conners-interviews

Video: Fora TV author reading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJrXgHpVe-I

Video: Syracuse University Q&A   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs3go8g_BOI