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Paul Petrie (b. July 1, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston where he taught for over 30 years. His work has appeared in over one hundred literary journals and magazines - including Poetry, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Paris Review, Chicago Review, Massachusetts Review - and have been reprinted in eight antologies.

Biography
Paul Petrie was born in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan in an area which, at that time, was on the outskirts of the city, an area both urban and rural.

He attended Wayne State University, where he was a member of the Miles Poetry Group, and earned his doctorate (1957) at the University of Iowa. A member of the Iowa Writers Workshop while there, he studied under Paul Engle, Rober Lowell and John Berryman. He taught for one year in Nebraska and for thiry-one years at the University of Rhode Island, during which period he spent sabbatical leaves in Devon, England, as well as several months in Settignano and Amsterdam.

Work
Poetry has been his main vocation throughout his life.

Retired now he continues to write, while working toward his final degree at that famous institution, The Academy of Goodbye.