Peter Kane Dufault

Peter Kane Dufault (1923, New Jersey) is an American poet.

He has been writing poetry for almost sixty years. Raised in New York, he graduated from Harvard University and served as a bomber pilot during World War II. In 1968 he ran for Congress in Columbia County, New York on the Liberal Party's anti-war platform. He has been variously employed as a tree-surgeon, journalist, teacher, house-painter, and pollster; he has twice been poet- in- residence a the Cheltenham Festival. He is well known as fiddler, banjo-player, and dance-caller. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals including The New Yorker, London Magazine and Poetry. He currently lives and writes in a cabin he built in Hillsdale, New York.

On June 4, 2010, the documentary film, What I Meant to Tell You: An American Poet’s State of the Union, had its world premiere at the Berkshire International Film Festival in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Collected works

 * Angel of accidence (1954)
 * For some stringed instrument (1957)
 * A Westchester Farewell-and Other Poems (1968)
 * On Balance, Selected Poems (1978)
 * Memorandum to the Age of Reason (Lindisfarne, 1988)
 * New Things Come into the World (1993)
 * Looking in All Directions (Nov 7, 2000)
 * To Be in the Same World (Dec 31, 2007)