Phillis Levin
Phillis Levin (born 1954 Paterson, New Jersey) is an American poet.
Life
Levin is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin 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
- 1986 Ingram Merrill Award
- 1988 Norma Farber First Book Award
- 1995 Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia
- 1999-2000 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- 2000 Bogliasco Fellowship
- 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship[9]
- 2006 Richard Hugo Award from Poetry Northwest
- 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.[10]
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. 8 January 2001.
- "A Rhinoceros at the Prague Zoo". Poetry Northwest. October 2006. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009.
- "End of April", Poetry 180, Library of Congress
- "Conversation Between Clouds; May Day; My Brother's Shirt". Reading Between A&B. 5 March 2007.
- "On Time". The New Yorker. 14 May 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
- Šalamun, Tomaž (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)
References
- ^ "Faculty Profile | Hofstra | New York".
- ^ "PEN American Center - Gregory Djanikian, Phillis Levin, Dennis Nurkse and Alicia Ostriker". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
- ^ Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine[dead link]
- ^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
- ^ "Agni Online". 15 March 2022.
- ^ "Search". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Phillis Levin, Jack Shanewise". The New York Times. 18 May 2008.
- ^ "Phillis Levin".
- ^ "Phillis Levin - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011.
- ^ "NEA Writers' Corner: Phillis Levin". www.arts.endow.gov. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008.