Robert Peterson

Background

Peterson, Robert was born on June 2, 1924 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Ernest and Alice (Morris) Peterson.

Education

AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1947; Master of Arts in Language Arts, San Francisco State College, 1957.

Career

Assistant manager, New Fielding Hotel, San Francisco, 1947-1955; mail clerk, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, San Francisco, 1956; poetry editor, Contact Magazine, Sausalito, California, 1958-1960; cashier, The Tides Bookstore, Sausalito, 1958-1960; writer in residence, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1969-1971; poetry in schools, New Mexico Arts Commission, Santa Fe, 1972-1974; writer in residence, Willamette U., Salem, Oregon, 1991, 92. Consultant Witter Bynner Foundation, Santa Fe, 1977. Public, editor antholy Vietnam Blues, San Francisco, 1965.

Achievements

• Robert Peterson has been listed as a notable Poet, painter by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Only Piano Player in LA Paz

    (59845)

  • Waiting for Garbo: 44 Ghazals

    (2664)

  • LEAVING TAOS
  • Leaving Taos. Selected by Carolyn Kizer
  • The Binnacle
  • Under sealed orders: poems
  • Leaving Taos (The National poetry series)

Membership

Served with 86th infantry division United States Army, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.

Interests

• Avocations: cooking, letter writing, photography, calligraphy, jazz.

Connections

Married Joan Marie Kloehn, November 1987. 1 child, Laurel Glenn.

Father:

Ernest Peterson

Mother:

Alice (Morris) Peterson

Spouse:

Joan Marie Kloehn

child:

Laurel Glenn Peterson