He is also a practitioner of complementary alternative medicine specializing in hypnosis.
He lives in Ithaca, New York with his wife, the poet Mary Gilliland. Find him on Facebook at Peter Fortunato author.
Late Morning: New and Selected Poems,
recently published by Cayuga Lake Books, surveys almost forty years of his work, beginning with selections from his earliest collections, A Bell or a Hook and Letters to Tiohero. Themes that compel Peter's work are love
of nature and human love, the revelatory power of dreams, and spiritual practice rooted in Buddhism. He is the winner
of numerous awards for his writing, including the Emily Dickinson Prize
of the Poetry Society of America, and a Pablo Neruda
Prize from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
recently published by Cayuga Lake Books, surveys almost forty years of his work, beginning with selections from his earliest collections, A Bell or a Hook and Letters to Tiohero. Themes that compel Peter's work are love
of nature and human love, the revelatory power of dreams, and spiritual practice rooted in Buddhism. He is the winner
of numerous awards for his writing, including the Emily Dickinson Prize
of the Poetry Society of America, and a Pablo Neruda
Prize from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Welcome, Peter.
— sdh