Published two times a year in high-quality, perfect-bound paperback, Tiferet Journal is a literary magazine offering nearly two hundred pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry in each issue by esteemed writers of many faiths.
Author: Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he operated heavy equipment, managed a night club, and drove a cab. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Anglo-Welsh Review, The Atlanta Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, The New York Quarterly, The New York Times, Witness, and Yellow Silk. His essays and reviews have been published in The American Book Review, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Teachers, Digest, The Shakespeare Quarterly, The Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass, World Order and elsewhere. He is a consultant to the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's poetryprogram and has been an educational advisor to five PBS television series on poetry including "Fooling with Words" with Bill Moyers which was recently broadcast. Murphy has received awards and fellowships for writing and teaching from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. In addition, he was the first recipient of the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship at the LouhelenBahá'í School in 1986. Murphy lives with his wife and daughter, a mile downwind from Atlantic City where he teaches English and creative writing at the local high school. He is the founder/director of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, held annually in Cape May.
