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Formatting

The formatting, especially in her Life section, is a bit strange, providing a new line for each sentence. I think it should be switched into paragraph form, and I'm going to do that. If there's a reason it should be different, please feel free to say Obliviblob (talk) 16:59, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

New books

Hi all,

This is Phillis Levin’s assistant, and therefore someone with a conflict of interest, so I cannot edit the article directly. However, it is out of date. I will probably make more posts later on this head, but two things I want to point out right now is that her two most recent books of poetry are missing from the list of her works: Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books, 2016) and An Anthology of Rain (Barrow Street Press, 2025). Malachi Mulligan (talk) 13:31, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. I am doubtful of the inclusion of the entire "works" section at all, but as long as it remains, I think it's fine if you add these two books. GoldRomean (talk) 04:39, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Suggested edits

Hi all,

Assistant here again. I have redrafted the article, modeling it on Tom Sleigh's. How does this look?

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Phillis Levin is an American poet, editor, essayist, and academic based in New York City. She has published six poetry collections, most recently An Anthology of Rain (2025) and Mr. Memory & Other Poems (2016), and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001). Mr. Memory was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize; Levin’s other honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Trust of Amy Lowell. In 2016, she read for Phillips Exeter Academy’s Lamont Poetry Series. She has been a Fellow at Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has been awarded artist residencies to the American Academy in Rome, Bogliasco, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.

Levin was an editor of Boulevard from its inaugural issue in 1985 until 1997. She and Elfie Raymond co-founded Sarah Lawrence College’s Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, awarded annually from 1998–2015 to an extended lyric sequence, which she judged and for which she served as director from 1998–2005 and as co-director with Vijay Seshadri from 2006–15. With Thomas Lux, she was the Guest Poetry Editor of the 2009 Pushcart Prize. She was an elector of the American Poets Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights from 2003 to 2008 and is a member of PEN. Levin has spent time abroad, including a year in Italy and a number of summers in Slovenia, where her work has been published in translation.

She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing and poet-in-residence emerita at Hofstra University.

A number of composers have set her work to music, including David Rakowski; George Tsontakis; and Sheree Clement, whose micro-opera Table Manners is an adaptation of Levin’s poem of the same name. Her poems have been published in AGNI, TheAtlantic, The Common, Grand Street, The Kenyon Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Plume, PN Review, Poetry, Poetry London, The Poetry Review (UK), Raritan, and The Yale Review.

Life

Levin was born in Paterson, New Jersey, to Charlotte Engel Levin and Herbert Louis Levin. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976 and from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 1977. She was a visiting writer and instructor of English at Baruch College from 1985 to 1989; a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1989 to 2001; and a visiting professor in the graduate writing program at New York University from 2001 to 2007. In 2001, she joined the faculty at Hofstra University.

In 1995, she spent four months in Slovenia, where she subsequently spent several summers as a writer-in-residence for the Slovene Writers’ Association in Ljubljana. Her engagement with the Slovenian literary scene was fruitful; she has translated a number of poems into English from Slovenian, and interviews and translations of her work have appeared in the Slovenian press. She also spent a year from 2000–2001 in Italy on an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

In 2008, she married the cardiac anesthesiologist Jack Stacey Shanewise, chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Awards

·       1986 Ingram Merrill Award

·       1988 Norma Farber First Book Award for Temples and Fields

·       1995 Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia

·       1999–2000 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

·       2000 Bogliasco Fellowship

·       2003 Guggenheim Fellowship

·       2006 Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest

·       2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

·       2016 Library Journal starred review for Mr. Memory & Other Poems

·       2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for Mr. Memory & Other Poem

Selected Works

Poems

·       “To Rome,” in PN Review 16, no. 1 (1989): 35.

·       “End of April,” The Plum Review 5 (Spring/Summer 1993): 80–81.

·       “Brief Bio,” The New Yorker, April 10, 1995, 80.

·       “Cumulus,” The New Criterion 15 (January 1997): 35.

·       “A Portrait,” The New Republic, October 27, 1997, 31.

·       “Georgic,” The New Criterion 17 (October 1998): 39.

·       “My Brother’s Shirt,” Barrow Street, Winter 2005, 64.

·       “Conversation Between Clouds,” The New Republic, September 25, 2006, 34.

·       “A Rhinoceros at the Prague Zoo,” Poetry Northwest 44, no. 3 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007): 5.

·       “On Time,” The New Yorker, May 14, 2007, 88.

·       “Album,” The Atlantic, October 2007, 110.

·       “On Betrayal,” Poetry London 58 (Fall 2007): 5.

·       “Anne Frank’s High Heels,” Poetry 204, no. 3 (June 2014): 216–17.

·       “Bayou Haiku,” Barrow Street, Winter 2015–16, 78–79.

·       “Boy with a Book Bag,” The Poetry Review 105, no. 3 (Autumn 2015): 50–53.

·       “Demitasse,” Tikkun 30, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 71–72.

·       “October Storm,” The New Republic, October 2022, 52.

·       “September First Again,” The New Yorker, August 31, 2020, 39.

·       “Wallpaper Poem,” The New Yorker, July 8 & 15, 2024, 35.

Longer Works

·       “One Left” (MA diss., Johns Hopkins, 1977).

·       Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press, 1988).

·       The Afterimage (Copper Beech, 1995).

·       Mercury (Penguin Books, 2001).

·       May Day (Penguin Books, 2008).

·       Tabula Rasa (The Center for Book Arts, 2012)

·       Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books, 2016).

·       An Anthology of Rain (Barrow Street, 2025).

Essays

·       “The Poetry of Aleš Debeljak,” in Knjizevni Listi (Slovenia), August 17, 1989, 5.

·       Introduction to the US edition of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, ed. Phillis Levin (Penguin Books, 2001), xxxvii–lxxiv.

·       Preface to the UK edition of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, ed. Phillis Levin (The Penguin Press, 2001), xxv–xxvi.

·       “Of Fences and Neighbors,” The New York Times Week in Review, August 3, 2003, 3.

·       “Some Notes on Robert Fitzgerald’s The Third Kind of Knowledge,” in Literary Imagination 13, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 297–302.

·       “Four Tesserae,” in Southwest Review 99, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 443–440.

·       “Secret Rites,” in Fast Furious Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction, ed.Gina Barreca (Woodhall, 2022)

Interviews and Conversations

·        “Landscape and Poetry,” interview by Irena Weber, translated into Slovenian by the interviewer, Dnevnik (Slovenia), January 30, 1996, 20–21.

·       Interview by Marko Novak, translated into Slovenian by the interviewer, Nova Revija (Slovenia) 16, no, 179 (March 1997): 60–77.

·       “Recording Mortal Sight: The Drama of Prosody,” interview by Blas Falconer et al., in Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, ed. Blas Falconer et al. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), 65–84.

·       “‘to create something when no one is looking’ - a Q & A with Phillis Levin,” interview by Ben Rogers, The Poetry Society (UK), March 2019).

·       “Making the Invisible Visible: A Conversation with Phillis Levin,” interview by Frances Richey, Plume, April 2025.

·       “Hitting a Wall and Making a Door: A Conversation between Phillis Levin and Diane Mehta,” The Common, September 8, 2025.

·       “A Voice, A Soul Embodied in Sound,” interview by Francis Richey, Tiferet Spring/Summer 2025, 15–31.

As Editor

·       The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (Penguin Books, 2001).

      ·       UK edition: The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (The Penguin Press, 2001).

·       2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart, 2009). (As Guest Poetry Editor, with Thomas Lux.)

Translations

·       “After Quevedo,” translated from the Spanish of Francisco de Quevedo, in The Afterimage.

·       István Vörös, “The Way of Milk,” “Torso at Dawn,” “Mouse, Dog, Chicken,” translated from Hungarian into English in collaboration with the author, in Metre 4 (Spring/Summer 1998).

·       Tomaž Šalamun, “Tell the People,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in The New Republic, September 13 & 20, 1999, 54.

·       Tomaž Šalamun, “Palladium,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Harvard Review17 (Fall 1999): 111–14.

·       István Vörös, “Let’s Count” and “History Recharged,” translated from Hungarian into English in collaboration with the author, in Blesok­ – Literature & Other Arts 17 (October–November 2000).

·       Twenty poems, translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Tomaž Šalamun, Feast, ed. Charles Simic (Harcourt, 2004)

·       “The Writing” and “Young Cops,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Tomaž Šalamun, The Book for My Brother (Harcourt, 2006).

·       Tomaž Šalamun, “[At the ebb footprints are blue],” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Harvard Review 30 (2006): 37.

·       “Creatures Roll On,” “Eternity Is,” “How the Hills,” “Monstrum (Lat.) from the Verb Monstrare,” “Mountains, all their life,” “The Last Judgment,” and “Who lives in the error,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Tomaž Šalamun, There’s the Hand and There’s the Arid Chair (Counterpath, 2009).

·       “Busy from Time to Time, in Rings,” “Alive I was—I Didn’t Speak a Bit,” and “I Was in There Where I Saw a Turning,” translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English, in The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, ed. Gregory Delanty and Michael Matto (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Anthologized Poems

·       “The Ransom,” in The Best American Poetry 1989, ed. Donald Hall (Scribner and Macmillan/Collier, 1989).

·       “What the Intern Saw,” in Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS, ed. Michael Klein (Crown, 1989).

·       “The Third Day,” in Burning Bright: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, ed. Patricia Hampl (Ballantine Books, 1995)

·       “The Third Day,” in Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry, ed. Robert Atwan et al. (Oxford University Press, 1998).

·       “The Shadow Returns,” “A Meeting of Friends,” “The Lost Bee,” and “Night Coach,” in Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, ed. Mark Jarman and David Mason (Story Line, 1996).

·       “Ontological,” in The Best American Poetry 1998, ed. John Hollander (Scribner, 1998).

·       “Face to Face,” in How Poetry Works, by Phil Roberts (Penguin Books UK, 2000).

·       “Out of Chaos,” in Poems of New York, ed. Elizabeth Schmidt (Knopf, 2002).

·       “The Blizzard,” in Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, ed. Billy Collins (Random House, 2003).

·       “The Brooklyn Botanic Garden,” in Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, ed. Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell (NYU Press, 2007).

·       “May Day,” in the Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2008 (Alhambra, 2008).

·       “Acorn,” “Box in Eden,” and “Keep Reading,” in Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, ed. Eva Salzman and Amy Wack (Seren, 2008).

·       “On the Other Hand,” in The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, ed. Eavan Boland and Edward Hirsch (Norton, 2008).

·        “Open Field,” in The Best American Poetry 2009, ed. David Wagoner (Scribner, 2009).

·       “Vigil” and “Unsolicited Survey,” in The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, ed. Kevin Young (Bloomsbury Books, 2010).

·       “Elegy for a Magnolia,” in Poems of the American South, ed. David Biespiel (Knopf, 2014).

·       “Doe,” in The Heart’s Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec’s Images Responding to Emily Dickinson, ed. Richard Jackson (Wings, 2017).

·       “Part,” in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925–2025, ed. Kevin Young (Knopf, 2025).

External Links

·       https://phillislevin.com

·       https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/september-first-again

·       https://shows.acast.com/poetry-what-is-it-good-for/episodes/poetry-as-play-with-phillis-levin-heather-dubrow

·       https://vimeo.com/5909374 Malachi Mulligan (talk) 18:18, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

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Phillis Levin is an American poet, editor, essayist, and academic based in New York City. She has published six poetry collections, most recently An Anthology of Rain (2025) and Mr. Memory & Other Poems (2016), and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001).[1] Mr. Memory was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize;[2] Levin’s other honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Trust of Amy Lowell.[3] In 2016, she read for Phillips Exeter Academy’s Lamont Poetry Series.[4] She has been a Fellow at Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has been awarded artist residencies to the American Academy in Rome, the Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.[5]

Levin was an editor of Boulevard from its inaugural issue in 1985 until 1997.[6] With Thomas Lux, she was the Guest Poetry Editor of the 2009 Pushcart Prize,[7] and she was an elector of the American Poets Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights.[8]

She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing and poet-in-residence emerita at Hofstra University.[9]

A number of composers have set her work to music, including David Rakowski;[10] George Tsontakis;[11] and Sheree Clement, whose micro-opera Table Manners is an adaptation of Levin’s poem of the same name.[12] Her poems have been published in AGNI,[13] The Atlantic,[14] The Common,[15] Grand Street,[16] The Kenyon Review,[17] the Michigan Quarterly Review,[18] The Nation,[19] The New Republic,[20] TheNew York Times Magazine,[21] The New Yorker,[22] The Paris Review,[23] Partisan Review,[24] Plume,[25] PN Review,[26] Poetry,[27] Poetry London,[28] The Poetry Review (UK),[29] Raritan,[30] and The Yale Review.[31]

Life

Levin was born in Paterson, New Jersey,[32] to Charlotte Engel Levin and Herbert Louis Levin.[33] She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976 and from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 1977.[34] She was a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1989 until 2001,[35] when she joined the faculty at Hofstra University. She has also taught at New York University.[36]

In 2008, she married the cardiac anesthesiologist Jack Stacey Shanewise,[37] chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.[38]

Awards

• 1986 Ingram Merrill Award
• 1988 Norma Farber First Book Award for Temples and Fields
• 1995 Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia
• 1999–2000 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• 2000 Bogliasco Fellowship
• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2006 Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest
• 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[*]
• 2016 Library Journal starred review for Mr. Memory & Other Poems[39]
• 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for Mr. Memory & Other Poems[40]

Selected Works

Poems

• “To Rome,” in PN Review 16, no. 1 (1989): 35.
• “End of April,” The Plum Review 5 (Spring/Summer 1993): 80–81.
• “Brief Bio,” The New Yorker, April 10, 1995, 80.
• “Cumulus,” The New Criterion 15 (January 1997): 35.
• “A Portrait,” The New Republic, October 27, 1997, 31.
• “Georgic,” The New Criterion 17 (October 1998): 39.
• “My Brother’s Shirt,” Barrow Street, Winter 2005, 64.
• “Conversation Between Clouds,” The New Republic, September 25, 2006, 34.
• “A Rhinoceros at the Prague Zoo,” Poetry Northwest 44, no. 3 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007): 5.
• “On Time,” The New Yorker, May 14, 2007, 88.
• “Album,” The Atlantic, October 2007, 110.
• “On Betrayal,” Poetry London 58 (Fall 2007): 5.
• “Anne Frank’s High Heels,” Poetry 204, no. 3 (June 2014): 216–17.
• “Bayou Haiku,” Barrow Street, Winter 2015–16, 78–79.
• “Boy with a Book Bag,” The Poetry Review 105, no. 3 (Autumn 2015): 50–53.
• “Demitasse,” Tikkun 30, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 71–72.
• “October Storm,” The New Republic, October 2022, 52.
• “September First Again,” The New Yorker, August 31, 2020, 39.
• “Wallpaper Poem,” The New Yorker, July 8 & 15, 2024, 35.

Longer Works

• “One Left” (MA diss., Johns Hopkins, 1977).
• Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press, 1988).
• The Afterimage (Copper Beech, 1995).
• Mercury (Penguin Books, 2001).
• May Day (Penguin Books, 2008).
• Tabula Rasa (The Center for Book Arts, 2012)
• Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books, 2016).
• An Anthology of Rain (Barrow Street, 2025).

Essays

• “The Poetry of Aleš Debeljak,” in Knjizevni Listi (Slovenia), August 17, 1989, 5.
• Introduction to the US edition of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, ed. Phillis Levin (Penguin Books, 2001), xxxvii–lxxiv.
• Preface to the UK edition of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, ed. Phillis Levin (The Penguin Press, 2001), xxv–xxvi.
• “Of Fences and Neighbors,” The New York Times Week in Review, August 3, 2003, 3.
• “Some Notes on Robert Fitzgerald’s The Third Kind of Knowledge,” in Literary Imagination 13, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 297–302.
• “Four Tesserae,” in Southwest Review 99, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 443–440.
• “Secret Rites,” in Fast Furious Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction, ed.Gina Barreca (Woodhall, 2022)

Interviews and Conversations

• “Landscape and Poetry,” interview by Irena Weber, translated into Slovenian by the interviewer, Dnevnik (Slovenia), January 30, 1996, 20–21.
• Interview by Marko Novak, translated into Slovenian by the interviewer, Nova Revija (Slovenia) 16, no, 179 (March 1997): 60–77.
• “Recording Mortal Sight: The Drama of Prosody,” interview by Blas Falconer et al., in Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, ed. Blas Falconer et al. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), 65–84.
• “‘to create something when no one is looking’ - a Q & A with Phillis Levin,” interview by Ben Rogers, The Poetry Society (UK), March 2019.
• “Making the Invisible Visible: A Conversation with Phillis Levin,” interview by Frances Richey, Plume, April 2025.
• “Hitting a Wall and Making a Door: A Conversation between Phillis Levin and Diane Mehta,” The Common, September 8, 2025.
• “A Voice, A Soul Embodied in Sound,” interview by Francis Richey, Tiferet Spring/Summer 2025, 15–31.

As Editor

• The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (Penguin Books, 2001).
  • UK edition: The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (The Penguin Press, 2001).
• 2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart, 2009). (As Guest Poetry Editor, with Thomas Lux.)

Translations

• “After Quevedo,” translated from the Spanish of Francisco de Quevedo, in The Afterimage.
• István Vörös, “The Way of Milk,” “Torso at Dawn,” “Mouse, Dog, Chicken,” translated from Hungarian into English in collaboration with the author, in Metre 4 (Spring/Summer 1998).
• Tomaž Šalamun, “Tell the People,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in The New Republic, September 13 & 20, 1999, 54.
• Tomaž Šalamun, “Palladium,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Harvard Review 17 (Fall 1999): 111–14.
• István Vörös, “Let’s Count” and “History Recharged,” translated from Hungarian into English in collaboration with the author, in Blesok – Literature & Other Arts 17 (October–November 2000).
• Twenty poems, translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Tomaž Šalamun, Feast, ed. Charles Simic (Harcourt, 2004)
• “The Writing” and “Young Cops,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Tomaž Šalamun, The Book for My Brother (Harcourt, 2006).
• Tomaž Šalamun, “[At the ebb footprints are blue],” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Harvard Review 30 (2006): 37.
• “Creatures Roll On,” “Eternity Is,” “How the Hills,” “Monstrum (Lat.) from the Verb Monstrare,” “Mountains, all their life,” “The Last Judgment,” and “Who lives in the error,” translated from Slovenian into English in collaboration with the author, in Tomaž Šalamun, There’s the Hand and There’s the Arid Chair (Counterpath, 2009).
• “Busy from Time to Time, in Rings,” “Alive I was—I Didn’t Speak a Bit,” and “I Was in There Where I Saw a Turning,” translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English, in The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, ed. Gregory Delanty and Michael Matto (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Agata Tuszyńska, unpublished poems, translated from Polish into English in collaboration with the author for setting to music by Tom Cipullo in glances (2001).

Anthologized Poems

• “The Ransom,” in The Best American Poetry 1989, ed. Donald Hall (Scribner and Macmillan/Collier, 1989).
• “What the Intern Saw,” in Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS, ed. Michael Klein (Crown, 1989).
• “The Third Day,” in Burning Bright: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, ed. Patricia Hampl (Ballantine Books, 1995)
• “The Third Day,” in Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry, ed. Robert Atwan et al. (Oxford University Press, 1998).
• “The Shadow Returns,” “A Meeting of Friends,” “The Lost Bee,” and “Night Coach,” in Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, ed. Mark Jarman and David Mason (Story Line, 1996).
• “Ontological,” in The Best American Poetry 1998, ed. John Hollander (Scribner, 1998).
• “Face to Face,” in How Poetry Works, by Phil Roberts (Penguin Books UK, 2000).
• “Out of Chaos,” in Poems of New York, ed. Elizabeth Schmidt (Knopf, 2002).
• “The Blizzard,” in Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, ed. Billy Collins (Random House, 2003).
• “The Brooklyn Botanic Garden,” in Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, ed. Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell (NYU Press, 2007).
• “May Day,” in the Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2008 (Alhambra, 2008).
• “Acorn,” “Box in Eden,” and “Keep Reading,” in Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, ed. Eva Salzman and Amy Wack (Seren, 2008).
• “On the Other Hand,” in The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, ed. Eavan Boland and Edward Hirsch (Norton, 2008).
• “Open Field,” in The Best American Poetry 2009, ed. David Wagoner (Scribner, 2009).
• “Vigil” and “Unsolicited Survey,” in The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, ed. Kevin Young (Bloomsbury Books, 2010).
• “Elegy for a Magnolia,” in Poems of the American South, ed. David Biespiel (Knopf, 2014).
• “Doe,” in The Heart’s Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec’s Images Responding to Emily Dickinson, ed. Richard Jackson (Wings, 2017).
• “Part,” in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925–2025, ed. Kevin Young (Knopf, 2025).

External Links

• https://phillislevin.com
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/september-first-again
• https://shows.acast.com/poetry-what-is-it-good-for/episodes/poetry-as-play-with-phillis-levin-heather-dubrow
• https://vimeo.com/5909374

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[1] https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty-profile/?id=865

[2] https://www.latimes.com/events/festival-of-books/book-prizes/history

[3] https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty-profile/?id=865

[4] https://library.exeter.edu/c.php?g=1475765&p=10989665

[5] https://www.macdowell.org/artists/phillis-levin

[6] https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryant-park/events/2026/06/02/a-celebration-of-sonnets-with-dora-malech-and-phillis-levin

[7] Bill Henderson, “Introduction,” in Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 2009), 8.

[8] https://centerforbookarts.org/people/phillis-levin

[9] https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty-profile/?id=865

[10] https://classical-scene.com/2009/03/02/collage-offers-bold-gestures-hints-of-opera-and-a-knockout/

[11] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/arts/music/17grub.html

[12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZX2NuBq6yY

[13] https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/phillis-levin/

[14] https://www.theatlantic.com/author/phillis-levin/

[15] https://www.thecommononline.org/tag/Phillis-Levin/

[16] https://www.jstor.org/stable/25007151

[17] https://kenyonreview.org/contributor/phillis-levin/

[18] https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/current-issue-winter-2025/

[19] https://www.thenation.com/authors/phillis-levin/

[20] https://newrepublic.com/article/65630/conversation-between-clouds

[21] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/10/magazine/10mag-gulf-phillis-levin.html

[22] https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/phillis-levin

[23] https://www.theparisreview.org/authors/5222/phillis-levin

[24] “Prisoners’ Round,” Partisan Review 55, no. 4 (Fall 1988): 614, https://bu.userservices.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/01BOSU_INST:AlmaGeneralView/121027668920001161?lang=en&viewerServiceCode=AlmaViewer

[25] https://plumepoetry.com/author/levin-phillis/

[26] https://www.pnreview.co.uk/magazines/pnr-69/16-1

[27] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-levin

[28] https://poetrylondon.co.uk/shop/summer-2015-issue-81/

[29] https://poetrysociety.org.uk/publications/volume-105-no-3-autumn-2015/

[30] “Four Poems,” Raritan 44, no. 3 (Winter 2025): 15–20.

[31] https://yalereview.org/author/phillis-levin

[32] https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty-profile/?id=865

[33] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/fashion/weddings/18LEVIN.html

[34] https://poets.org/poet/phillis-levin

[35] https://poets.org/poet/phillis-levin

[36] https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty-profile/?id=865

[37] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/fashion/weddings/18LEVIN.html

[38] https://www.anesthesiology.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/dr-jack-shanewise-celebrating-distinguished-career-acta

[*] The first eight awards in this list are already listed in the article.

[39] Library Journal, May 1, 2016, 73.

[40] https://www.latimes.com/events/festival-of-books/book-prizes/history Malachi Mulligan (talk) 15:09, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Photograph of the subject

I’ve uploaded a photograph of Levin to the Wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhillisLevin.jpg Malachi Mulligan (talk) 17:16, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Marking previous two posts as COI requests.

I realized, thanks to a Reddit user, that I had not marked the previous two posts as COI requests. I am doing that now. Malachi Mulligan (talk) 23:55, 13 August 2026 (UTC)