Carpet Company Theatre in Los Angeles, Fine Art Theatre at UCI, Provincetown's Summer Theatre, St. Matthews Church near Broadway, New York and many college campus venues. He took acting lessons from his colleague, Fine Arts Professor Robert Cohen, at University of California, Irvine. These performances are all well-documented in Peters's journals, video recordings, flyers, playbills, posters and scrapbooks, replete with reviews and photos, which are all housed and catalogued at UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library. Memoirs Peters wrote four memoirs of his days during the 1930s in the North Woods of Wisconsin. His last memoir was on the death of his third son, which took place in the 1950s. Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List, summarized Peters's second memoir, Nell's Story, by saying, "As a fascinating exercise in obscure lives retrieved, as a joint effort in painful and exultant memory, this rich memoir has the playful seriousness and inventive charm which characterizes the work of Robert Peters". Awards and honors Peters judged competitions for fellowships and prizes for small presses and for the Poetry Society of America and PEN International. He enjoyed Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Fulbright Scholarship, and won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America. Legacy Peters's papers from 1950 to 1990 are on deposit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. His working library of contemporary poetry, with related papers, is now in the Rare Book Collection at Bowling Green State University. His remaining archives have been obtained by the Geisel Library Special Collections at the University of California San Diego. Personal life Shortly after his divorce from his wife Jean, Peters met poet Paul Trachtenberg and established a relationship lasting more than 36 years. Death He died on June 13, 2014, in Irvine, California, from natural causes at the age of 89. Works Books of poetry Songs for a Son, W. W. Norton, 1967 The Sow's Head and Other Poems, Wayne State University Press, 1968 Connections: In the English Lake District, Anvil Press Chapbook Series, London 1972 Red Midnight Moon, Empty Elevator Shaft Chapbook Series, 1973 Holy Cow: Parable Poems, Red Hill Press, San Francisco, 1974 Bronchial Tangle, Heart System, Granite Books, 1975 Cool Zebras of Light, Christopher's Books, Santa Barbara, California, 1975 The Gift to Be Simple: A Garland for Ann Lee, Liveright/ W.W. Norton, 1975 The Poet as Ice Skater,