NY Poetry Community Celebrates Acclaimed Poet Philip Levine in an 80th Birthday Tribute, Nov. 29

New York University’s Creative Writing Program will present “Philip Levine’s 80th Birthday Tribute,” a reading celebrating the birthday of one of America’s most important and influential poets, on Thursday, November 29, at 7 p.m. This special event takes place at The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th Street, and is free and open to the public. For further information, call Danielle Veith at 212.998.8850; email danielle.veith@nyu.edu; or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu.

The reading features Levine, with fellow writers Kate Daniels, E.L. Doctorow, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Malena Mörling, Sharon Olds, Tom Sleigh, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, and Charles Wright.

Currently the Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at NYU, Levine is the author of 16 collections of poetry, most recently Breath. His other poetry collections include The Mercy; The Simple Truth, which won the Pulitzer Prize; What Work Is, recipient of the National Book Award; Ashes: Poems New and Old, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the first American Book Award for Poetry; 7 Years From Somewhere, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Names of the Lost, recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Levine has also published a collection of essays, The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography, edited The Essential Keats, and co-edited and translated Off the Map: Selected Poems of Gloria Fuertes and Tarumba: The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines.

This tribute is co-sponsored with the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, Cooper Union, Knopf, Poets House, the Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers.