About Phillis

Phillis Levin is a poet, essayist, and editor. Her newest poetry collection, An Anthology of Rain, is forthcoming from Barrow Street Press on 15 April 2025. Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin, 2016), her previous collection, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the author of four other collections, May Day (Penguin, 2008), Mercury (Penguin, 2001), The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press, 1995), and Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press, 1988), and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (Penguin, 2001). Her honors include the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, and fellowships from the Amy Lowell Trust, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been awarded residencies to the American Academy in Rome, Bogliasco, MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Widely anthologized, her work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Criterion, The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Plume, PN Review, Poetry, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Southwest Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Levin has served as an editor of Boulevard and an Elector of the American Poets’ Corner of The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. She has taught at the University of Maryland, The Unterberg Poetry Center, and New York University, and is professor of English and poet-in-residence emerita at Hofstra University. She lives with her husband in New York City.

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