Author: Peter Cooley
Born: 1940-11-19
Bio: <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cooley">Peter Cooley</a></b> (b. 1940) is an acclaimed American poet and a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans.  Cooley received his undergraduate education at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a>, where he enrolled via the school's <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm">early entrance to college program</a> and graduated in 1962.  His graduate education he acquired at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa, where he also attended the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop.  As of 2012, Cooley has published nine volumes of poetry. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Peter_Cooley">Shimer College Wiki</a>)