Carol Peters

Carol Peters is sixty some. In 2008, her chapbook, Muddy Prints, Water Shine, was released as #57 in the New Women’s Voices Series from Finishing Line Press. Many poems in Sixty Some have appeared in journals and anthologies including Always on Friday, Cairn, Connotation Press, Ecotone, International Poetry Review, Letters to the World, Main Street Rag, Pebble Lake Review, Pembroke Magazine, RealPoetik, Reconfigurations, South Carolina Review, The Asheville Poetry Review, The Lyric, The Other Voices International Project, The Pedestal Magazine, The Sound of Poets Cooking, and Waccamaw. Carol is Editorial Assistant at The Gettysburg Review and mentors students privately and at the Charleston School of the Arts. Visit her blog (http://carolpeters.blogsite.com) and her website (http://carolpeters.org). She lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Hakalau, Hawaii.

Reviews of Muddy Prints, Water Shine by Carol Peters:

 Muddy Prints, Water Shine is a true joy. Led by music, these poems lean in closely to the natural world, intelligently playing off the resistance between description and discovery. 
— Sally Keith, winner of The Colorado Prize for Design

This observant poet's first collection refreshes the reader with new ways of seeing. A bantam game cock: "Tango toward me, Romeo, elongate your nape / . . . Roll up your eyelids, / rock on toothpick pins." A flamingo taking flight: "she's weightless, wisping, // chalk-dusting away." 
— Maxine Kumin, winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Up Country

Welcome, welcome to these vivid witty poems. Many of them are small the way a ring of engagement is small, huge in promise and portent. All are at their lyric best. They flash across a creature-filled landscape — vegetal, mineral, animal all present in vivid human terms. Carol Peters takes everything into account with nifty verbal agility. Her one agenda is poetry. Her strategy is to catch the moving grace of life as it flashes before us.
— Marie Ponsot, author of Springing: New and Selected Poems

Muddy Prints, Water Shine reveals the poet's natural instinct for correspondences of this world — what is animal, what is human. The words in these poems work in and out of edges and eddies, shape their aesthetic from the affirmative heartbeat of the living world.
— Shelby Stephenson, author of Possum, editor of Pembroke Magazine