Lee Peterson's poetry chapbook, The Forgiveness Dream, was selected from over a thousand entries by Black Lawrence Press through its Open Reading Period.

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Lee Peterson’s poetry chapbook, The Forgiveness Dream, was selected from over a thousand entries by Black Lawrence Press through its Open Reading Period.

January 12, 2026

It offers a series of poems which reimagines Sophocles’ Antigone; male characters also figure prominently in the collection, as do questions of male authority, migration, memory, and fracture. The Forgiveness Dream will be published in January 2027.

Lee Peterson’s poetry chapbook, The Forgiveness Dream, was selected from over a thousand entries by Black Lawrence Press through its Open Reading Period.

Department of English