Phillis Levin

Phillis Levin (b. 1954 Paterson, New Jersey) is an American poet.

Life

Levin is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin of Yardley, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, and Johns Hopkins University in 1977. She was an Associate Professor of English at The University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently a visiting professor in the graduate writing program at New York University and a teaching poet-in-residence at Hofstra University.[1] She is also an elector of the American Poets' Corner of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, and the co-director of the Sarah Lawrence Language Exchange. She is a member of PEN.[2] Her poems have been published in Poets for Life, Poetry,[3] Ploughshares,[4] AGNI,[5] and The New Yorker.[6]

On May 17, 2008, she married Jack Shanewise, at the Century Association in New York.[7] They live in New York City.[8]

Awards

Works
  • "Ontological". -The New Criterion. 16: 38. October 1997.
  • "Cumulus". -The New Criterion. 15: 35. January 1997.
  • "Georgic". -The New Criterion. 17: 39. October 1998.
  • "Unsolicited Survey". The Nation. January 8, 2001.
  • "A Rhinoceros at the Prague Zoo". Poetry Northwest. October 2006. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009.
  • "End of April", Poetry 180, Library of Congress
  • "Conversation Between Clouds; May Day; My Brother's Shirt". Reading Between A&B. March 5, 2007.
  • "On Time". The New Yorker. May 14, 2007.
  • "Album". The Atlantic. October 2007.

Books
  • One Left. Johns Hopkins University. 1977.
  • Levin, Phillis (1988). Temples and Fields. Georgia. ISBN 978-0-8203-3350-2.
  • The Afterimage. Copper Beech. 1995. ISBN 978-0-914278-67-2.
  • Mercury. Penguin. 2001. ISBN 978-0-14-058928-3.
  • May Day. Penguin Group USA. 2008. ISBN 978-0-14-311394-2.

Editor
  • The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Penguin. 2001. ISBN 978-0-14-058929-0.
  • 2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII Best of the Small Presses

Translation
  • Tomaž Šalamun (2007). "All of You". Parthenon West Review.

Anthologies
  • Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2008 (Alhambra Publishing, 2008)
  • Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003)
  • The Best American Poetry 1998 (Scribner, 1998)
  • The Best American Poetry 1989 (Scribner, 1989)
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References
  1. http://www.hofstra.edu/Faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=645
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-06-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://preview.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=25909. Retrieved 2009-06-01. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1815
  5. http://web.bu.edu/agni/authors/P/Phillis-Levin.html
  6. https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Phillis%20Levin%22
  7. "Phillis Levin, Jack Shanewise". The New York Times. May 18, 2008.
  8. http://www.pw.org/content/phillis_levin_2
  9. http://www.gf.org/fellows/8694-phillis-levin
  10. http://www.arts.endow.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_42
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