Priscilla Denise Levertoff[1] 24 October 1923 Ilford, Essex, England
Died
20 December 1997(1997-12-20) (aged 74) Seattle, Washington, USA[2]
Occupation
Poet
Period
1946 to 1997
Notable awards
Shelley Memorial Award (1984) Robert Frost Medal (1990)
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet.[3] She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain Poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
^"Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006".
^Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century, Harvard University Press, 2004, p. 384.
^"Denise Levertov", The Academy of American Poets.
Priscilla DeniseLevertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain...
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Black Mountain College such as Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and DeniseLevertov; poets associated with the New York School such as Frank O'Hara and...
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overseas. He traveled to Europe following the war, where he met the poet DeniseLevertov. The two were married in 1947 and continued to live briefly in France...
Chomsky co-founded the anti-war collective RESIST with Mitchell Goodman, DeniseLevertov, William Sloane Coffin, and Dwight Macdonald. Although he questioned...
include Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Merton, DeniseLevertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions later broadened...
various schools). He included Olson, Creeley, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, DeniseLevertov, Larry Eigner, Joel Oppenheimer, Jonathan Williams, Paul Blackburn...
some of his poems to the magazine Mother Jones, then edited by DeniseLevertov. Levertov printed Baca's poems and began corresponding with him, eventually...
in The Nation and Poetry and then, with the assistance of the poet DeniseLevertov, he published his first poetry collection Plain Song (1965).: 198ff ...
classics, including True Minds by Marie Ponsot (1957), Here and Now by DeniseLevertov (1958), Gasoline (1958) by Gregory Corso, Selected Poems by Robert...
Mountain movement with Robert Creeley, Organic Verse represented by DeniseLevertov, Projective verse or "open field" composition as represented by Charles...
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Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, as well as W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, DeniseLevertov, and Derek Walcott. In 2018, the magazine published a poem entitled...
with the American public intellectuals Mitchell Goodman, Henry Braun, DeniseLevertov, Noam Chomsky, and William Sloane Coffin, Macdonald signed the antiwar...
Nissim Ezekiel: "Night of the Scorpion" Chinua Achebe: "Vultures" DeniseLevertov: "What Were They Like?" Sujata Bhatt: "Search for My Tongue" Tom Leonard:...
involved were Robert Creeley (1926–2005), Robert Duncan (1919–1988), DeniseLevertov (1923–1997), Ed Dorn (1929–1999), Paul Blackburn (1926–1971), Hilda...
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