IN MEMORY OF...

PHILIP LEVINE  was an award-winning poet who was born and bred in Detroit, Michigan, in 1928.

After graduating from Detroit Central High School in 1946, he went on to Wayne (State) University where he began to write poetry. He earned his B.A  in 1950. 

In 1954 he attended the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he studied with the poets, Robert Lowell and John Berryman. He eventually received a "mail order" master's degree from the university in 1954, and his MFA in 1957

Levine taught in the English department at California State University, Fresno, for over three decades, as well as holding teaching positions at various other universities throughout the United States, including Columbia, Princeton, and NYU.

He has published numerous volumes of poetry. 

In 1995 he received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection entitled, "The Simple Truth."  He was named the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2011.

Philip Levine died on February 14, 2015. He was 87 years old.

To read some highlights of his career and sample his poetry Google-search his name