Peter Nickowitz is an American poet, playwright, screenwriter, and literary critic whose work moves across poetry, theater, and film. the historical archive published five of his poems in Issue 35. His writing often brings cinematic framing, dramatic movement, dialogue, desire, and urban observation into close contact.
Writing across forms
Nickowitz has worked extensively in dramatic writing as well as poetry. His plays include The Alice Complex and Songs & Statues, and his screenwriting has developed alongside a literary practice grounded in poetry and criticism. The movement between forms gives his poetry a strong sense of scene, voice, pacing, and visual composition.
Books and critical work
His poetry collection Cinema Vernacular was published by Publication Studio in 2014. He is also the author of Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, published by Palgrave in 2006. Institutional biographies at Barnard College and NYU Tisch document the breadth of his work across poetry, criticism, theater, and screenwriting.
Peter Nickowitz in the historical archive
Issue 35 published five poems by Nickowitz, including Screenpoem #2. the original publication appearance records an intersection of poetry and cinematic technique that also runs through his wider body of work. This profile preserves the bibliographic connection to the original issue under the historical the historical archive address cited by other publications.