Phillis Levin

Levin is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin of Yardley, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, and Johns Hopkins University in 1977. She was an Associate Professor of English at The University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently a visiting professor in the graduate writing program at New York University and a teaching poet-in-residence at Hofstra University.[1] 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.[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]

• 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]

• "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. January 8, 2001.
• "A Rhinoceros at the Prague Zoo". Poetry Northwest. October 2006. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009.
• "End of April", Poetry 180, Library of Congress
• "Conversation Between Clouds; May Day; My Brother's Shirt". Reading Between A&B. March 5, 2007.
• "On Time". The New Yorker. May 14, 2007.
• "Album". The Atlantic. October 2007.