Peter Ramos’ poems have appeared in New World Writing, Colorado Review, Puerto del Sol, Painted Bride Quarterly, Verse, Indiana Review, Mississippi Review (online), elimae, Mandorla and other journals. Nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize, Peter is the author of two books of poetry, Please Do Not Feed the Ghost (BlazeVox Books, 2008) and, most recently, Lord Baltimore (Ravenna Press, 2020), as well as three shorter collections. He is also the author of one book of literary criticism, Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge (Routledge Books, 2019). An associate professor of English at Buffalo State College, Peter teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature.