Philip Levine at the NYS Writers Institute in 1996 (Part 1)

Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. On August 10, 2011 he was appointed to serve as the Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011--2012.

Levine's poetry is grounded in the harsh reality of contemporary life. He describes his poetry as an attempt to create "a voice for the voiceless." His acclaimed early volumes include Not This Pig (1968), They Feed They Lion (1972), Ashes (1979), which received the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and 7 Years From Somewhere (1979) which also received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He also has written The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), nine essays which focus on a particular person or place important in the author's life.

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