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Poet, author and performer “Peter Rabbit” was born in the oil region of Pennsylvania at the end of the Great Depression. He attended high school in Owensboro, Kentucky, and numerous colleges as a literature and writing major. Of those, Black Mountain College, where he was a student of Charles Olsen’s, was the most useful.
Writing and performing since his teens, Rabbit’s voice has been heard in American poetry and communitarian movements for over five decades. He has performed and lectured at universities, museums, bars, strip clubs, coffee shops and bookstores all over the U.S. and Canada. He has authored six books o
Poet, author and performer “Peter Rabbit” was born in the oil region of Pennsylvania at the end of the Great Depression. He attended high school in Owensboro, Kentucky, and numerous colleges as a literature and writing major. Of those, Black Mountain College, where he was a student of Charles Olsen’s, was the most useful.
Writing and performing since his teens, Rabbit’s voice has been heard in American poetry and communitarian movements for over five decades. He has performed and lectured at universities, museums, bars, strip clubs, coffee shops and bookstores all over the U.S. and Canada. He has authored six books of poetry and nonfiction, including the underground classic, Drop City.
Rabbit was a co-founder of Drop City, the Southwest’s first commune and recipient of Bucky Fuller’s Dymaxion Award for poetically economic structural achievement. He also co-founded the Libre artist’s colony, the Taos Poetry Circus, SOMOS and the World Poetry Bout Association. Since the 60s he has lectured and published on alternate lifestyles, expanded states of consciousness, and appropriate technology and architecture. In 1972 he served as a technical advisor to Congress’ National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. He is an ordained bishop in the Universal Life Church.
Peter Rabbit’s prose and poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, periodicals and small magazines, including Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation (SourcebooksMediaFusion, 2003), The Olympia Reader, Thus Spake the Corpse,
City Lights Journal, Art in America, Architectural Design, Shelter, The Whole Earth Catalogue, Foot, Wordworks, The Exquisite Corpse and many more.
BOOKS
Taos Poetry Circus: The Nineties (essay) (Pennywhistle, 2001) prose
Ornithology (Minor Heron Press, 1984) poetry
Drop City (Olympia Press, 1971) prose
Recognitions (Grouper Press, 1965) poetry
Dance Sequences (Grouper Press, 1964) poetry, fine art print series
With a Bone in Her Teeth (chapbook, Iceman's Press, 1963) poetry
Mastodon (Jargon, 1955) poetry
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