Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
The truth about American poetry is that it is in very bad shape. The professional poetry establishment has taken care to mark serious criticism comin...
The truth about American poetry is that it is in very bad shape. The professional poetry establishment has taken care to mark serious criticism comin...
AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.11.2011
NEW YORK -- The country wants to know more about its next poet-in-chief. Sales have jumped for books by Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize winner who on...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.10.2011
NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine, known for his detailed and personal verse about the working class, has been appointed the countr...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A writer who stopped using punctuation in the 1960s and spent much of the last 30 years secluded in Hawaii will become the nation's...
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.13.2011