Claiming
he wants to be remembered as “the Don King of Poetry,”
he has relentlessly promoted poets and their work since the mid-50s,
when he lived and wrote in Taos alongside local poets of that time,
Judson Crews, Richard Duerden and Max Finstein. With his wife and
partner Annie MacNaughton,
also a poet and performer, he founded the jazz/poetry ensemble The
Luminous Animal in 1983 and could be seen in his role as
Master of Ceremonies at World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bouts
during the 80s and 90s. He and MacNaughton received the New Mexico
Literary Association’s 1st annual Appreciation Award, as well
as Verse Converse Festival’s Eternal Flame Award for Lifetime
of Dedication to Poetry.
Past jobs
include work in public relations, sales and advertising, as book review
editor for the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, travel writer for
the St. Petersburg Times, and host of a poetry show on local
radio. He has also been a merchant seaman, commercial fisherman, head
chef, food and beverage manager, tutor, substance abuse counselor,
house parent, census enumerator, organic farmer, bartender, book store
clerk, desk clerk, pig farmer, fund raiser, horticulturist and much
more. In other words he has lived in the Sangre de Cristo range of
the southern Rocky Mountains for a long time, and knows how to do
whatever it takes to make a living. Currently retired in Northern
New Mexico, Peter Rabbit writes every day and cares for an organic
garden.
PETER
RABBIT – OBITUARY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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
peter@lucidperformance.com