Peter Cooley was Director of Creative Writing at Tulane from 1975 -2018 and is now Professor Emeritus. He has published ten books of poetry, nine of them with Carnegie Mellon and his most recent is WORLD WITHOUT FINISHING, 2018.   The Poetry Editor of NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW FROM 1970-2000, he is now Poetry Editor of CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE. He was Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2015-2017.