Len Krisak
Len Krisak is an American poet.
He graduated from University of Michigan, and Brandeis University. He taught at Brandeis University, Northeastern University, and Stonehill College.[1]
His work has appeared in Agenda, Commonweal, The Hudson Review, PN Review, The Formalist,[2] The Cumberland Poetry Review, Tennessee Quarterly, Classical Outlook, Pivot, Rattapallax, The Weekly Standard.[3] He read at Newburyport Literary Festival.[4] He is a part of the Powow River Poets.[5]
He was also a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1995, winning $43,399 in four games and giving himself a berth in that year's Tournament of Champions.
Krisak also appeared on History IQ in 2001, but was eliminated in the first round.
Awards
- 2000 Richard Wilbur Award
- Robert Penn Warren Prize
- Robert Frost Prize
- 2009 Der-Hovanessian Translation Award, New England Poetry Club [6]
- Los Angeles Poetry Festival
Works
- Midland Somers Rocks Press 1999
- Fugitive Child, Aralia Press 1999
- Even as We Speak University of Evansville Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-930982-53-9
- If Anything, WordTech Editions, 2004, ISBN 9781932339079
Translator
- The Odes of Horace, Translator Len Krisak, Carcanet, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85754-851-8
- Virgil's Eclogues, Translator Len Krisak, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8122-4225-6
Anthologies
- "Tantalas III", Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths, Editor Nina Kossman, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-513341-7
References
- ↑ http://www.versedaily.org/aboutlenkrisak.shtml
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=OvjyAAAAMAAJ&q=Len+Krisak&dq=Len+Krisak&cd=2
- ↑ http://www.thehypertexts.com/Len_Krisak_Poet_Poetry_Bio_Picture.htm
- ↑ http://www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org/html/10poetry.html
- ↑ http://powowriverpoets.com/members/len-krisak.html
- ↑ http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2009.htm
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