About

Peter Waldor is the author of twenty-four collections of poetry and a book of essays: Who Touches Everything – which received the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry – The Unattended Harp, Door to a Noisy Room, The Wilderness Poetry of Wu Xing, State of the Union, Gate Posts With No Gate, Nice Dumpling, Owl Gulch Elegies, Unmade Friend, Something About the Way, The Way 2, Midwife vs Obstetrician, Hats Off, Snowy Saplings, At the Next Table, You Alone Know, The Third Way, 14 Meditation Prompts and a Treatise on Noble Silence, Turnstiles, wellwhadayasay?!, Beginning Polyamory, Time Can’t Tell It’s Being Told, Fairy Slippers, Understandings and Misunderstandings, and Seven Quilts (essays). He was the Poet Laureate of San Miguel County, Colorado from 2014 to 2015. His work has appeared in many journals, including the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Midwifery Today and Mothering Magazine. Waldor lives in Ophir, Colorado..