Profile of Philip Levine, poet laureate
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/08/profile-of-philip-levine-poet-laureate.html
Philip Levine was not expecting to be the new poet laureate of the United States. "It just wasn't something I thought I'd get," he said, sounding a little amused by the whole thing.
Levine, who has written 20 collections of poems, has already won just about every major writing award: a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for "The Simple Truth," a National Book Award in 1980 for "Ashes: Poems New and Old" and in 1991 for "What Work Is," the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize, two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships . . . the list goes on.
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