Peter Seaton (December 16, 1942 – May 18, 2010) was an
American poet associated with the first wave of
Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely read and influential. Seaton was also a frequent contributor to
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, one of the influential magazines and theoretical venues for Language poetry, co-edited by
Charles Bernstein. In 1978, Bernstein published Seaton's first book of poetry,
Agreement, the same year that L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine made its first appearance. Some of Seaton's work from this time has been reprinted in
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (1984).