Phillis Levin

Phillis Levin is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books, 2016), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; her other collections are May Day (Penguin, 2008), Mercury (Penguin, 2001), The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press, 1995), and Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press, 1988). She is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001). Her honors include the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry London, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.

  • Blueprint and Ancient Story

    The poem I want to build needs a vestibule
  • How It Is

    Say how it is
  • In a Valley & Theorems of Reason

    Hello to the theorems of reason, hidden
  • To a New Chair | Bounty

    To a New Chair
  • As It Happens

    As it happens, there was nothing left, so much to do, a plethora
  • Lyre

    Because it hangs from the center of the sky,
  • On Either Side of the Word Lie

    The letters that must be taken away