Dana Levin (poet)

Dana Levin (born 1965) is a poet and teaches Creative Writing at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.^[1][2] She also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She earned degrees from Pitzer College and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was published by American Poetry Review (Copper Canyon Press) in 1999; it went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005 and her third, Sky Burial, in 2011. The Los Angeles Times says of her work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." Her work has appeared in many anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers,The Poet’s Child, This Art, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and in magazines such as The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review.

Awards

• 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
• 2000 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
• 2003 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
• 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award
• 2004 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress
• 2005 Whiting Writers' Award for poetry.
• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry ^[3]

Works

• In the surgical theatre: poems. American Poetry Review. 1999. ISBN 9780966339529. 
• Wedding day. Copper Canyon Press. 2005. ISBN 9781556592195. 
• Sky Burial. Copper Canyon Press. 2011. ISBN 9781556592195. 

Anthologies

• Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, ed (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 9781932511291. 
• Joan Murray, ed (2006). The Pushcart Book of Poetry. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1888889345. 
• Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels, ed (2000). American poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 9780887483431. 

Reviews

• Review of In the Surgical Theatre at Free Verse, by Dr. Kathleen Washburn
• Review of In the Surgical Theatre at Boston Review, by Reginald Shepherd
• Review of Wedding Day at Constant Critic
• Review of Wedding Day at Slope
• Starred Review of Sky Burial at Publishers Weekly

References

External links

• Dana Levin, poems and bio, Poetry Foundation
• Dana Levin at Poets.org
• Dana Levin radio interview at Cultural Energy
• Dana Levin interview at KRonline
• Dana Levin, essays and poems, at The American Poetry Review
• Three Questions For Dana Levin, interview, February 2010
• "Dana Levin and the Problem of Light", Nick Rombes, Berfrois, 29 September 2011