Philip Levine – An American Poet Laureate Passes…
Philip Levine – (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) Poet of America’s Middle Class…. When I created Finding Out! I envisioned it as kinda’ my Trivia Crack.Spin the wheel, or surf the Internet and explore things that fall into the main categories of Trivial Pursuit, the arts, science, sports, history, entertainment, and geography all things that I love, Finding Out about! Today the wheel within my ADD addled brain spun and landed on the Arts….I have mentioned before when discussing Rod McKuen Baudelaire, that I am not a big fan of poetry, which is why I didn’t know who Philip Levine was when I saw his name among Wikipedia’s list of those who have recently passed away Philip Levine was not only and award-winning American poet, known for his poems about working-class Detroit, he was also appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012! Here are those awards that Philip Levine won…. 2013 Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry – The Simple Truth (1994) 1991 National Book Award for Poetry and Los Angeles Times Book Prize – What Work Is 1987 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Modern Poetry Association and the American Council for the Arts 1981 Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine 1980 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship 1980 National Book Award for Poetry – Ashes: Poems New and Old 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Ashes: Poems New and Old – 7 Years from Somewhere 1978 Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from…
