Phillis Levin is the author of three volumes of poetry including Temples and Fields, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, The Afterimage, and Mercury. She is also the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition Taught in English. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary publications such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Partisan Review and The Atlantic. Levin’s honors include an Ingram Merrill Grant and a Fulbright Fellowship.

Other poems by Phillis Levin in Verse Daily:
October 13, 2005:   "Always The Same Face" " Full moon. Harvest moon. Late September...."

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Poets in this issue: Phillis Levin