Category Archives: Poetry

“Witch-Wife” in “Splitting the Genre: An Intersection of Poetry & Visual Art”

Six Arrow press is a new literary press based in San Diego. They have just released their first book, an anthology of creative combinations of poetry and visual art. I am pleased to announce that my adaptation into comics of … Continue reading →

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“Witch-Wife” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Here is my adaptation of an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem first published in 1917. In her wonderful biography of Millay, Savage Beauty, Nancy Milford describes “Witch-Wife” as “clearly something of a self-portrait,” and that is the interpretation that I … Continue reading →

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“And Suddenly It’s Evening”

Here is an English version of my comic-strip adaptation of the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo’s iconic poem “Ed è subito sera” (“And suddenly it’s evening”):

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New and Improved W. B. Yeats Comic!

The brilliant illustrator and artist Maryse Daniel has added digitally-rendered shading to my adaptation of W. B. Yeats’s “When You Are Old.” The shading imitates the screentone technique that was popular before the introduction of digital colouring. So now, thanks … Continue reading →

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Nelligan à Cacouna

The Montreal writer and poet Diane G. Paquin and I have begun collaborating on a project (in French) centered around the famed Quebec poet Émile Nelligan (1879-1941). Here is a little preview. This scene is set in Cacouna, then a … Continue reading →

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Interview with Micah Mattix

Here is a link to an interview I recently gave to Micah Mattix for The University Bookman: http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-j.-alfred-prufrock/

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The Idle Scribblings of a Piddling Poetaster

Once in a blue moon, when the inspiration hits me really hard, I try my (perhaps somewhat heavy) hand at writing a little poetry. I have now gathered some of the results together on a page of my website: Poetry … Continue reading →

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“Sensuka” – A Poem by Alice Elm – Un poème d’Alice Elm

The Montreal poet and writer Alice Elm has written a stunningly beautiful poem, in French, that is directly inspired by my on-going “Views of an Imaginary City” series. The name of my invented city, which gives its name to this … Continue reading →

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J. Alred Prufrock in The Boston Globe!

“‘Archie,’ ‘Garfield,’ ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Dilbert,’ ‘Dick Tracy,’ and ‘J. Alfred Prufrock’?” A wonderful profile of my Prufrock comic in The Boston Globe. As a kid I was obsessed with Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side, and I often dreamed of … Continue reading →

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Illustrating Poetry Interview Part 2

Here is the second half of my interview with Neelima Vinod for her highly-recommended neelthemuse blog, which discusses and promotes poetry in all its forms. http://neelthemuse.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/illustrating-poetry-with-julian-peters-part-2/

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