BACK TO OUR TEAM | PETER LABERGE • FOUNDER & CEO • 1:1 POETRY INSTRUCTOR • 1:1 COLLEGE ADVISOR
Peter LaBerge
Peter LaBerge founded The Adroit Journal as a high school sophomore in November 2010 and he hasn’t slowed down since.
The winner of a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, Peter graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude with his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from New York University as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks and his poems have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and ZYZZYVA. Currently, Peter is at work on his debut poetry collection, Century Flower.
Through The Adroit Journal, Peter has provided early editorial recognition to such luminaries as K-Ming Chang, Chen Chen, Richie Hofmann, Talin Tahajian, Ocean Vuong, Phillip B. Williams, and Shelley Wong, among others. Peter also founded the online Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, which connects high school writers from around the world with established poets, fiction writers, and memoirists, and founded three annual prize opportunities for emerging writers: the Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, the Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program in Poetry, and the Anthony Veasna So Scholars Program in Fiction. Peter has also previously taught creative writing to undergraduates at New York University and to middle school students in New York City.
In addition to his continued leadership of The Adroit Journal, Peter is ever-expanding his work with promising, tenacious students as the founder of Ellipsis. Through Ellipsis, Peter has independently mentored students who have subsequently been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the National Student Poets Program, the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards, Princeton University, the Davidson Fellows Program, the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program, the Best American Series, TASP, the Coke Scholars Program, the GE-Reagan Scholars Program, and the Bryan Cameron Scholars Program. They’ve been featured at the White House, the Kennedy Center, the United Nations, the New York City Poetry Festival, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and by BBC News, The Boston Globe, Disney Channel, Teen Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal.
Click here to view Peter’s 2024 YoungArts Educator Certificate.
Congratulations to the twenty-two Ellipsis Students recognized by YoungArts!
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Pronouns • he/him/his.
Photo Credit • Trent Brock.
Unabridged Student Matriculations • Brown University (3), Columbia University (3), Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Georgetown University, Harvard University (7), Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2), Purdue University (Merit Full-Ride), Pomona College, Princeton University (2), Stanford University (3), University of California - Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania (6), University of Chicago (2), University of Southern California, Washington University in St. Louis, Williams College, & Yale University (7).
Select work by Peter available online
Boy Saint, Crazyhorse
False Indigo, The Cincinnati Review
Gust, Sixth Finch
Sight of Love, Crazyhorse
White Orchid, New England Review