Media
Watch
“The Diaspora of Light” A video of my poem made by Michael DiGiorgio of Red Jacket Films
The Way Out Podcast – Writing Recovery with Peter Murphy
The Addiction Podcast – Poet, Author, Alcoholic & Educational advisor on 50 years of sobriety.
A is for Alcoholic – A great talk with a great sober writer. We talked about faith, transformation and changing your life through writing.
Peter Murphy’s Story: Once Upon a Time You Lived in a Castle – Watch this chat with Vince & Jeanna about my memoir dealing with alcohol, addiction and recovery.
Atlantic City Lives – Short video made by Michael McGarvey, artist and publisher, as I read poems from the book around the city.
Moonstone Arts Center Virtual Reading – with Elijah Pringle, Lynn Levin and Warren C. Longmire (I come in at about 57 minutes)
Rattlecast: Poetry reading and interview – by Tim Green, editor of Rattle Magazine (Begins about 14 minutes in)
Story Slam in Atlantic City – The Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin vs. The Truth (Video)
Interview by Kate Megargee at the 1998 Dodge Poetry Festival
Listen
Move Your Mind Podcast – Progress, not Perfection. In this interview with actor, author and stand-up comedian Nick Bracks from Australia, our conversation turns from my early years of abuse and addiction to building a life of service through creativity that has led to happiness.
The Way Out Podcast – Writing Recovery with Peter Murphy
One Man’s Journey of Courage and Hope – A podcast conversation with host Debra Rufini on the Artist First Radio Network about my childhood abuse by a priest, my early addiction to alcohol and eventual recovery though poetry.
Relying on God Instead of Ourselves – Podcast hosted by Sean Hinton on how poetry led me from alcoholism to the Bahá’í Faith and a life of writing and teaching.
Reflections on Sandy – WHYY-FM NewsWorks
Read
How I Wrote “Bad History” Interview by Frances Turpin in Poetry Wales.
Stories Among the Sheep: Collaborative Creativity by Rosalind Buckton-Tucker, in The North American Review
Poetry Behind Bars brings prisoners’ work to Collingswood Book Festival by Phaedra Trethan, in The Courier Post
The Garden State is Fertile Ground for Poetry – Why is New Jersey is a hotbed of contemporary poets? in New Jersey Monthly
South Jersey poets embrace diversity, community at World Above by Madison Russ in The Press of Atlantic City
Learning to Write in Hemingway's Spain in The Huffington Post
Featured in The Literary Explorer
Interviewed by Joel Allegretti, editor of Rabbit Ears, The First Anthology of Poetry about TV
Interviewed by Aubrey Gerhardt of the South Jersey Poets Collective
Interviewed by Jennifer DeWitt of Playwrights Theatre
Peter’s Principles by Carol Plum-Ucci in New Jersey Lifestyle Magazine
Review of Stubborn Child by Charles Johnson in the Home News Tribune
Review of Stubborn Child Amy Emmers in Ideas, The Newsletter of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Revise! Revise! Revise! by Barbara Stewart in the New York Times