About the Getaway
Peter E. Murphy

Peter E. Murphy’s book of poems, Stubborn Child, was published by the Jane Street Press in January 2006. Read more about Stubborn Child here.

His poems and essays have appeared in The American Book Review, The Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Cortland Review, The Shakespeare Quarterly, Witness, World Order, and elsewhere.

He is a Master Teacher for the NJ Council for the Humanities and a consultant for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation’s poetry program. He has been an educational advisor to several PBS television series on poetry including Moyers: Power of the Word, The Language of Life with Bill Moyers, Poetry Heaven, and Fooling with Words. He has received fellowships for writing and teaching from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.

Recently retired from teaching English and creative writing at Atlantic City High School for 29 years, he is the founder/director of Murphy Writing Seminars, LLC which provides professional development programs for educators and additionally sponsors the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway held annually in Cape May.

Writings Online
Read Peter Murphy's essays on poetry writing:
Revise! Revise! Revise! from The New York Times
Three helpful lessons for teaching poetry from Bill Moyers' Fooling with Words
Of Millionaires & Mariners: Poetry across Time Curriculum, and Life
Breaking Through the Abstract

Read Peter Murphy's poetry at:
“At the New Age Hotel” & “Can’t Dance” in The Cortland Review
"Baptism" in The Cortland Review
"The Stubborn Child" & other poems
"The Gap" in U.S. 1 Worksheets
"Long Night at the Parsippany Hotel" in Pif Magazine
"Llywelwyn's Dog" in The Literary Review