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Sears was born in New York City in 1937.
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Peter Sears
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He graduated from Yale University and the Iowa Writers" Workshop.
Career
In 2014, he was named the seventh poet laureate of the United States. state of Oregon. His first book-length collection, Tour, was published in 1987. He has also published four chapbooks of poetry and two teaching books, Secret Writing and Gonna Bake Maine a Rainbow Poem.
His work has been published in many magazines and literary journals, widely anthologized and included in the radio series, The Writer"s Almanac.
His most recent full-length book is titled Green Diver. Sears moved to Oregon in 1974 to teach creative writing at Reed College, and has since taught for the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College.
He is active in the publishing company Rubberstampmadness Incorporated. in Corvallis and Community of Writers in Portland.
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