Posts Tagged “Philip Levine”

More on New US Poet Laureate Philip Levine

August 10, 2011 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell, Poetry Leave a Comment

Hometown reporting on Philip Levine’s appointment as US Poet Laureate from the Fresno Bee in California. Levine was born in Detroit and started teaching at Fresno State in 1958. The university didn’t even have a creative writing program at the time. His close friend and fellow poet Peter Everwine,…

Philip Levine Is the New U.S. Poet Laureate

August 9, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Poetry 2 Comments

Poetry is front-page news online tonight. That’s different. The NYTimes tonight reports that Philip Levine is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Read Charles McGrath’s article here, and get the NYT if you want more. Phil Levine was one of my poet-heroes when I started writing in the mid-1970s. I admired…