Peter Levitt

Peter Levitt (born September 2, 1946 in New York City) is a poet and translator. He is also the founder and teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi.

Background

He has taught poetry, writing and creativity workshops and seminars around the world, including at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and as a faculty member in poetry and translation for the MFA Writers Program at Antioch University. He emigrated to Canada in 2000 and became a citizen shortly thereafter. He is an instructor in the University of British Columbia Creative Writing Optional Residency MFA Program.[1] He was in the anthology and film, Poets Against the War. He was at the 2009 Montreal Zen Poetry Festival.[2]

He lives with his wife, poet Shirley Graham, and their son, Tai, on one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia.

Awards

1989 Lannan Foundation Literary Award in Poetry
2004 Canada Council for the Arts

Work

Poetry

Within Within. Black Moss. 2008.
Winter Still. Mother Tongue Press. 2007. ISBN 0-8308-2308-5.
One Hundred Butterflies. Broken Moon Press. 1993.; Blissful Monkey Press 2011 (Second Edition)
Bright Root Dark Root. Broken Moon Press. 1992. ISBN 0-913089-20-6.
Bright Root Dark Root. Ambrosia Press. July 1989. ISBN 0-913089-20-6.
Homage: Leda as Virgin. Lockhart Press. 1987.
A Book of Light. Amargi Press. 1982.
Running Grass (Poems 1970-1977) Foreword by Robert Creeley. Eidolon Editions. 1979.
Two Bodies, Dark/Velvet. Momentum Press. 1975.
Poems. Slow Loris Press. 1972.

Essays

Fingerpainting on the Moon:Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom. Crown Publishing Group. July 2003. ISBN 978-0-609-61048-0.

Editor / Translator

Thich Nhat Hanh (1988). The Heart of Understanding. Parallax Press. ISBN 978-0-938077-11-4.
Jay Dunitz (January 1993). Pacific Light. Beyond Words Publishing. ISBN 978-0-941831-23-9.
Jakusho Kwong (March 2003). No Beginning, No End: the Intimate Heart of Zen. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-609-61080-0.
Kazuaki Tanahashi (May 2004). A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter. Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8021-4133-0.
Kazuaki Tanahashi (August 2010) Shobo Genzo: Zen Master Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, Associate Editor, Peter Levitt
The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master (Shambhala Publications, April 2013) edited by Peter Levitt and Kazuaki Tanahashi
The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan. (Shambhala Publications, 2018) Translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt ISBN 1611804264

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References

"Peter LEVITT, BC Author Bank". BC Bookworld.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2009-05-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[1] "Peter LEVITT, BC Author Bank". BC Bookworld.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2009-05-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)