Peter is the first English-language poet/dramatist to receive the new literary award from the Korean Poets Society of America/Miju Poetry & Poetics in recognition of his new book of poetry, Garden of Clouds/New and Selected Poems, and his drama The Fire in the Wood, based on Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara's life, which premiered in California in 2018.

He is also the recipient of the new Cross-Cultural Communications Literary Arts Award from his New York publisher Stanley H. Barkan, for his contribution as a writer to CCC's 50 years of publishing international books.
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