Phillis Levin (born 1954
Paterson, New Jersey) is an American
poet
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Life
Levin is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin of
Yardley, Pennsylvania
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. She graduated from
Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, and
Johns Hopkins University
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in 1977. She was an Associate Professor of English at The
University of Maryland, College Park
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, and is currently a visiting professor in the graduate writing program at
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
and a teaching poet-in-residence at
Hofstra University. 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
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. Her poems have been published in ''Poets for Life'', ''Poetry'', ''Ploughshares'', ''AGNI'', and ''The New Yorker''.
On May 17, 2008, she married Jack Shanewise, at the
Century Association in New York. They live in
New York City
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.
Awards
* 1986
Ingram Merrill Award
* 1988 Norma Farber First Book Award
* 1995 Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia
* 1999-2000
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work.
When poet Amy Lowell died in 1925, her will established ...
* 2000 Bogliasco Fellowship
* 2003
Guggenheim Fellowship
* 2006 Richard Hugo Award from Poetry Northwest
* 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
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Works
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"End of April", ''Poetry 180'', Library of Congress*
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Books
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* ''2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII Best of the Small Presses''
Translation
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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
1955 births
Living people
Writers from Paterson, New Jersey
Sarah Lawrence College alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
New York University faculty
Hofstra University faculty
American women poets
American women academics
21st-century American women
20th-century American poets
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