Mark Levine (poet)

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Mark Levine
Born	1965 (age 58–59) New York, U.S.
Occupation	Poet writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University (BA) University of Iowa (MFA)
Genre	Non-fiction
Notable awards	Whiting Award (1993)

Mark Levine (born 1965, New York) is an American poet and a writer of non-fiction. He grew up in Toronto, attended Brown University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

He taught at the University of Montana, and at the University of Iowa. His books of poetry include Debt, Enola Gay, The Wilds, Travels of Marco, and Sound Fury. His book of non-fiction is titled F5.

"Debt" was a selection in the National Poetry Series, and he has been the recipient of a Whiting Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). He has written journalism for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and numerous other publications.

Works

• Counting the Forests, Boston Review
• Willow, Poetry Daily

Books

• Debt, Quill/W. Morrow (1993), ISBN 978-0-688-12398-7, a selection of the National Poetry Series
• Enola Gay , University of California Press, (April 11, 2000)
• The Wilds, University of California Press, (2006)
• Travels of Marco, Four Way Books (2016)

Ploughshares

• Then at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 November 2007)
• Two Women at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 November 2007)
• Habitat at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 November 2007)
• They Flee at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 November 2007)

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Interview with Mark Levine at Nonfiction Universe at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 July 2008)
• Interview with Mark Levine, Srikanth Reddy, jubilat at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 March 2016)
• Contemporary Poetry: a web symposium, Spring 2006, Providence College at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 July 2011)