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Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well.
A profile of Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the nation’s current Poet Laureate. Read More Audio
Philip Levine - The author of numerous award-winning poetry collections, Philip Levine was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2000. In 2011, he was named the 18th U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress, and in 2013, he received the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry.
Philip Levine was a major American poet whose work continues to resonate with readers for its honest and unflinching portrayal of working-class life. He is considered one of the key figures of the post-World War II generation of poets.
Poets. Biography. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Feb 16, 2015 · Philip Levine, a former United States poet laureate whose work was vibrantly, angrily and often painfully alive with the sound, smell and sinew of heavy manual labor, died on Saturday morning...
Philip Levine was an American poet of urban working-class life. Levine was of Russian Jewish descent. He studied at Wayne University (now Wayne State University), Detroit (B.A., 1950; M.A., 1955), and the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1957).
