Peter O’Leary is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The Sampo (Cultural Society, 2016). A new book of criticism, Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age, was published November 2017 by Columbia University Press. He is the editor of Verge Books, teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
