Background
Peter was born on January 3, 1950, in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Peter Paul and Florence (Marcello) Payack. Raised in an Italian American family in Boonton, NJ.
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The author of NO FREE WILL IN TOMATOES, Peter Payack is a poet, environmental artist, and self-described "conceptual anarchist". This latest fanciful collection of poems reflects Payack at his "pithy" and "perceptive" best.
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Peter was born on January 3, 1950, in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Peter Paul and Florence (Marcello) Payack. Raised in an Italian American family in Boonton, NJ.
Bachelor, Catholic University America, 1972. Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1994.
First Poet Populist of Cambridge, MA (2007-2009).
Inventor of The Stonehenge Watch™.
Founding Editor of Phone-a-Poem (1976-2002), which is now archived at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University.
Assistant professor Berklee College Music, Boston, 1997-2015. Adjunct visiting lecturer University Massachusetts, Lowell, 1987-2012. Founder, president Speculative Poetics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1976.
Contributing editor Creative Computing, Morristown, New Jersey, 1977-1985.
Artist-in-residence Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1982, 84, 86.
Member art advisory committee International Space Station, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Visiting Artist at Harvard 350, 1986.
Visiting Artist at MIT's International Sky Art Conference, 2002 held at Delphi, ikaria and Athens Greece.
Runner of 92,000 miles and 24 Marathons, Including 12 Boston Marathons. 24-year Wrestling coach at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (Cambridge MA). Co-Founder and President Emeritus of The Cambridge Girls Softball League.
Author: (poetry and prose poems) No Free Will in Tomatoes, 1988, Blanket Knowledge, 1997, The Zen of America, 2002. Contribution poems, prose poems, and short stories to more than 1000 publications including The Paris Review, The New York Times, Asimov's Science Fiction Review, Readers Digest, Boston Globe, Cornell Review, also textbooks and anthologies. Inventor, innovator.
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Married Monica Elizabeth Hynes, June 5, 1981. Children: Michael, Peter Paul.
