Peter Klappert is an American poet who was born in 1942 in Rockville Centre, New York. He graduated from Cornell University with an MA and from the University of Iowa with an MFA. His work has appeared in AGNI, Antaeus, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Ploughshares, AWP Chronicle, Lambda Book Report, the Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review. He is the recipient of residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, and La foundation Karolyi, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Ingram Merrill Foundation. In 1971, Klappert won the Yale Younger Poets Award. He was later the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University and Writer-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary. Klappert also taught at Rollins College, New College of Florida, and George Mason University over the course of his career before retiring in 2006.