Peter Everwine

Peter Paul Everwine (February 14, 1930 – October 28, 2018) was an American poet.

Life

Born on February 14, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan,[1] Everwine grew up in western Pennsylvania, and was educated in the Midwest.[2] In 1962, he joined Philip Levine, on the faculty of Fresno State University.[3] He retired from there in 1992.

He was a senior Fulbright lecturer in American poetry at the University of Haifa, Israel. In 2008, he was visiting writer at Reed College.[4]

Everwine is the author of seven collections of poetry. His poetry has appeared in The Paris Review,[5] Antaeus,[6] and American Poetry Review.[7]

He lived in Fresno, California, where he died on October 28, 2018, aged 88.[1]

Awards

• Collecting the Animals, which won the 1972 Lamont Poetry Prize.
• Stegner Fellow Stanford
• Horizon Awards 2008[8]
• Best American Poetry 2008[9]
• Pushcart Prize XVII[10]
• Fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts
• Guggenheim Fellowship[8] 1975

Work

• "Aubade in Autumn". The New Yorker. October 15, 2007.

Poetry books

• The Broken Frieze. The Hillside Press (Cornell College). 1958.
• Collecting the Animals. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1972. ISBN 978-0-88748-324-0.
• Keeping the Night. Penumbra Press. 1977.
• Figures Made Visible in the Sadness of Time. Brighton Press. 2003.
• From the Meadow: Selected and New Poems. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8229-5844-4.
• Listening Long and Late. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013.
• Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart; Last Poems. Stephen F. Austin State University Press at Nacagdoches, Texas. 2019. ISBN 978-1936205950.

Translation

• Natan Zach (2011). The Countries We Live In: The Selected Poems of Natan Zach 1955-1979. Tavern Books. ISBN 978-1-935635-08-6.
• Working the Song Fields, Spring 2009. (A collection of his Aztec translations)
• Natan Zach (1982). The Static Element. Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-11318-5.
• In the House of Light. Stone Wall Press. 1969. (His first book of Aztec translations )

Anthology

• M. L. Williams; Christopher Buckley; David Olivera, eds. (March 15, 2001). HOW MUCH EARTH:The Fresno Poets. Heyday Books. ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6.
• Christopher Buckley; Gary Young, eds. (1999). "Peter Everwine". The geography of home. Heyday Books. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5. Peter Everwine.

Ploughshares

• "Rain". Ploughshares. Spring 2008. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009.
• "After". Ploughshares. Winter 2007–08. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.
• "One for the 5-String". Ploughshares. Winter 2007–08. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.

References

1. Peter Everwine, poet and Fresno State professor emeritus, dies at 88
2. Christopher Buckley; Gary Young, eds. (1999). The geography of home: California's Poetry of Place. Heyday Books. pp. 65–69. ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5. Peter Everwine.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2009-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. http://web.reed.edu/visiting_writers/archive/0708.html%5B%5D
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. Antæus. Villiers Publications. 1973-01-01.
7. "The American Poetry Review Article Archives | HighBeam Research". www.highbeam.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2009-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
9. "The Best American Poetry 2008, Guest Edited by Charles Wright". www.bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
10. Henderson, Bill (1992-10-01). The Pushcart Prize XVII : Best of the Small Presses: 1992-1993. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9780916366773.

External links

• "Great Books from Great Poets", The Olives of Oblivion , June 09, 2008
• "Peter Everwine's from the meadow", July 05, 2007, THE GREAT AMERICAN PINUP
• "Editors Book Pick", Independent Reviews, June/July 2002
• Edward Hirsch (May 30, 2004). "Poet's Choice". The Washington Post. p. BW12.