Lunacy, It’s Called - limited edition poetry chapbook by Peter Junker, 2017
Lunacy, It’s Called - limited edition poetry chapbook by Peter Junker, 2017
Poet Melissa Range called Junker’s signature 10-line, 100-syllable poems “miracles of compression, both verbal and emotional.” Amy Greene said of his poetry, “The poems’ controlled structure attempts to bring a kind of order to the disorderly experience of living with mental illness, and their brevity breaks Junker’s message into doses small enough for the reader to take in, almost-but-not-always painlessly.”
PETER JUNKER was born in Akron, Ohio in 1962 and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He studied Hellenistic religions and philosophy at Arizona State and received an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he served as assistant editor for poetry at The Iowa Review. After working as an editor for museum publications at The Art Institute of Chicago, he had a career in nonprofit development and corporate communications. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Julie Cannon, a psychotherapist and wellness coach. His poetry chapbook Lunacy, It’s Called was published by Kudzu Leaf Press in 2017.