Simon Peter Eggertsen

SIMON PETER EGGERTSEN {[email protected]} was born in Kansas, raised in Utah, schooled in Virginia and England. He has degrees in literature, language, and law (BYU, Virginia, Cambridge). He came very late to creative writing, is aiming for his prime as he closes in on eighty. He is better known for his poetry, some having appeared in Dialogue. In another life, he taught and worked in the area of international public health. Eggertsen now spends his time shuttling between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Montreal.

Articles

Night Prayer at Binh Doung +

Confirmed in the slim night shadows,
a four-toed blue and gold dragon ridges

the tiles of the moss-glazed roof, ascends
to the slivering waxed Têt moon, an off-center

A Reminder of the Diverse Particles that Form Your Identities—Ancestry in the Languageof Geography and Theoretical Physics

For my younger children So you will know, here is a recounting of the quantuminfluences, the little arcs of familiar experience thataccelerate within your own beings, tickling the protonsof personality, exciting your identities into existence,top…

LePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet—An Amusement Based on a Reworking of Whittle’s Research Notes

Podcast version of this fiction piece. This was not the only time that Richards, originally born Neville Colyer, the son of a millwright in Oxfordshire, had worked through the imagery of the stars. He had…

The Moldau in a Utah Living Room

Trevor at the Fountain

poetry on the ‘fridge door

my mother is madly licking
at the languid red peach,
screaming at life and
the rust crush of death.

Three-Legged Dog

Things Missed

Trying to Keep Quiet: A Poem Constructed Around Fragments of Leslie Norris’s “Borders”

Putting Up the Blue Light

Dialogue Out Loud Presents LePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet—An Amusement Based on a Reworking of Whittle’s Research Notes by Simon Peter Eggertsen

Simon Peter Eggertsen explains “‘LePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet‘” is a fictional story, but there are some things the reader should know. Whittle is real, as am I. Benson Whittle and I grew… Read more