Murphy Writing Seminars ~ Challenging & Supportive Professional Development Programs

About Murphy Writing Seminars

About Peter Murphy

Stubborn Child
Writings Online

Inservice Seminars

Bankside Players

Poetry Excursions

Expert Book Editing

Resources & Links

3rd Annual Weekend Poetry Retreat in Sea Isle City

News & Updates

	Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
	A conference for writers, artists & teachers held annually in Cape May since 1994. www.wintergetaway.com

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	Murphy's Law
	Give your students (and yourself) permission to write lousy first drafts.

	“I wish Peter Murphy had been my high school teacher.”
Writer, Bethlehem, PA

About Peter Murphy
Writings Online

Read Peter Murphy's essays on poetry writing:

Revise! Revise! Revise! from The New York Times

Three helpful lessons for teaching poetry from Bill Moyers' Fooling with Words

Of Millionaires & Mariners: Poetry across Time Curriculum, and Life

Breaking Through the Abstract

Read Peter Murphy's poetry at:

"At the New Age Hotel"& "Can't Dance" in The Cortland Review

"Baptism" in The Cortland Review

"The Stubborn Child" & other poems

"The Gap" in U.S. 1 Worksheets

"Long Night at the Parsippany Hotel" in Pif Magazine

"Llywelwyn's Dog" in The Literary Review