Peter Inman is an American poet who was born in 1947 and raised on Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

. He is a graduate of Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

. Since 1980 he has worked at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

, where he has been a union activist (i.e. shop steward, executive officer, union rep and contract negotiator) for Local 2910 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFSCME. He has described his politics as "class-based & socialist". His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies including: In the American Tree (edited by Ron Silliman

Ron Silliman

Ron Silliman is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet...

) and From the Other Side of the Century

From the Other Side of the Century

From the Other Side of the Century: "A New American Poetry, 1960-1990" is a poetry anthology published in 1994. It was edited by American poet and publisher Douglas Messerli – under his own imprint Sun and Moon Press ISBN 978-1-55713-131-7 – and includes poets from both the U.S...

. He resides in Maryland with the poet Tina Darragh

Tina Darragh

Tina Darragh is an American poet who was one of the original members of the Language group of poets.Darragh was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the south suburb of McDonald, Pennsylvania. She began writing in 1968 and studied poetry in Washington, DC at Trinity University from 1970 to 1972...

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Selected publications

• Platin (Sun & Moon, 1979)
• Ocker (Tuumba, 1982)
• Uneven development (Jimmy's House of Knowledge, 1984)
• Think of one (Potes & Poets, 1986)
• Red shift (Roof, 1988)
• criss cross (Roof, 1994)
• Vel (O Books, 1995)
• ply (1997)
• at. least.(Krupskaya, 1999) ISBN 1-928650-03-1
• amounts. to. (Potes & Poets, 2000)
• a different table altogether. (Slought Books, 2003) e-book
  E-book
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   subtitled: P. Inman in Conversation with Roger Farr & Aaron Vidaver. The full content of this e-book is available on-line here Slought Foundation.
• now /time (Bronze Skull, 2006)
• Ad Finitum (if p then q, 2008).

Audio & CD

• Thomas Delio/James Dashow (Capstone Recording 8645, 1997): settings for works by composer Thomas DeLio
  Thomas DeLio
  Thomas DeLio is an American experimental music composer, music theorist and author. He is currently Professor of Music in theory and composition at the University of Maryland in College Park.-Biography:...
  
  
• Music Text (Capstone Recording 8645, 1999)

External links

• P. Inman Homepage @ Electronic Poetry Center
• Author Page @ Krupskaya, the publisher of at.least
• Publisher Site @ if p then q, the publisher of Ad Finitum