Philip Levine: Quick Facts


Facts

Born January 10, 1928 • Detroit • Michigan
Died February 14, 2015 (aged 87) • Fresno • California
Title / Office poet laureate (2011-2012)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1987)
Notable Works “The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography” • “What Work Is”

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Louise Glück
Louise Glück
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
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Lisel Mueller
German-American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
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Robert Hass
American poet and translator
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C.K. Williams
American poet
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
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Hayden Carruth
American poet and literary critic