Writing & publishing
Letters
Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude
Open the book ↗A few words. A few worlds.
Poet,
Publisher,
Pete.
Books, poetic (mis)adventures, curiosities, and ideas that just had to come out.
and the next (mis)adventure.Thorong La, Nepal · from the personal archive
Words, bound & otherwise
On the bookshelf.
English translation
Baek Seok
Poems of the North 백석 시 모음집 – 북에서온시들 (한글+영문)
Open the book ↗
Writing & publishing
Teddy's Day
On a Bearish Adventure Through Everyday Life
Open the book ↗
Writing & publishing
Korean Slang
As much as a Rat's Tail | 한국 비속어: 쥐꼬리만큼 (Insiders Guide)
Open the book ↗From the notebooks
A little wandering.
A lot of wondering.
Essay / 2016-03-28
Coffee or Tea?
“Coffee or tea?” Not so great a question as “What is the meaning of life?” but a bit of pith for our next coffee shop contemplation. After all, philosophy is the study of being, the issue of who we are and why we are, or in another sense,…
Read the story ↗Poetry / Feb 14th, 2009
An Ode to Espresso
No Sadness Cafe I love espresso, So sweet and so strong. My eyebrows dance As I sip soft blackness, My mouth, once long, enlivens With swift speech setting A sun dried arch of life, Spitting out pop culture: Movie quotes of youth. When I…
Read the poem ↗Adventure / 2010-03-14
Winded
or Hangin in Hua Hin with humans in flight Have arrived in Hua Hin, Thailand to do some beach running and relaxing on my way down to the race in Rotorua. The run today was, if not on the Edge of insanity, pretty near it with intense heat…
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Poetic (mis)adventures
Take the
long way.
“As a poet and sometime athlete, when I get adventure in my heart, I wander the world, mac in tow, in search of (mis)adventures…”
From the original Poetic (Mis)adventures introduction.
Follow the stories ↗Not quite out in the world. Yet.
Still making things.
In development
Sleigh What?!
Twelve days of illustrated holiday mishaps, creative prompts and quick missions.
Inside the project ↗A work in progress
In development
D is for Darkness
A gothic alphabet in verse, with the Hollow Host opening another door into the dark.
Inside the project ↗A work in progress
In development
Monster XYZ’s and Bedtime Boos
An alphabet of monster interviews, starting at the end.
Inside the project ↗A work in progress
In development
Riddle Scout
Your first badge can wait. Something is erasing the Library of Hidden Things—and your field journal may hold a way through.
Inside the project ↗Peter N. Liptak
A conversation, perhaps?