Mark Levine (born 1965, New York) is an American poet and non-fiction writer.
He grew up in Toronto, attended
Brown University, and the
Iowa Writers' Workshop
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.
He taught at the
University of Montana
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, and at the
University of Iowa
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. His books of poetry include Capital, Debt, Enola Gay, The Wilds, and Travels of Marco. His book of
non-fiction is titled ''F5''. "Debt" was a selection in the National Poetry Series, and he has been the recipient of a
Whiting Award and a fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts
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(NEA). He has also written journalism for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine and numerous other publications.
Works
''Counting the Forests'', Boston Review
Books
''Debt'' Quill/W. Morrow (1993), , a selection of the National Poetry Series
''Enola Gay '', University of California Press, (April 11, 2000)''The Wilds'' University of California Press, (2006)
''Travels of Marco'' Four Way Books (2016)
''Ploughshares''
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References
External links
Profile at The Whiting Foundation*
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1965 births
Living people
Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
American male poets
Brown University alumni
21st-century American poets
21st-century American male writers
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