What is Robert Peters?
{{Infobox writer |name = Robert Peters | image = | imagesize = | caption = |birth_name=Robert Louis Peters |birth_date = {{birth date|1924|10|20|=mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Eagle River, Wisconsin]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|06|13|1924|10|20}} |death_place = |occupation = Poet, [[memoirist]], [[Victorian literature|Victorian]] scholar, critic, playwright, and professor |nationality = American }} '''Robert Louis Peters''' (October 20, 1924 - June 13, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor. His poetry career began in 1967 when he wanted to write a poem about the death of his son. The poem was called ''Songs for a Son''. After Peters divorced, he began dating Paul Trachtenberg. Their relationship lasted for 36 years.<ref name=farmboys>{{citation |title=Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest |first=Will |last=Fellows |publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-299-15084-4 |page=47 }}</ref> Peters died on June 13, 2014 from [[natural causes]] at the age of 89. == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5397 Profile] at University of California, Irvine {{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Robert}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:American playwrights]] [[Category:American editors]] [[Category:American stage actors]] [[Category:Academics from California]] [[Category:American literary critics]] [[Category:American LGBT writers]] [[Category:LGBT actors]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:Writers from Wisconsin]] [[Category:Actors from Wisconsin]] [[Category:Memoirists]] {{us-actor-stub}}