Jeffrey Levine is the author of Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize, and most recently, At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered, Salmon Press, 2019. Levine's many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize (twice), and the American Literary Review poetry prize. His poems have garnered 23 Pushcart nominations. In addition to his own writing, he is principal translator of Canto General, Pablo Neruda's epic work of poetry. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Levine is founder, Artistic Director and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award-winning independent literary press located in the historic Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, and he also serves as Director of the esteemed Tupelo Press Writing Conferences. Also an accomplished musician, Levine is a concert clarinetist, jazz guitarist and pianist.

Other poems by Jeffrey Levine in Verse Daily:
February 3, 2006:   "The Comfort of Strangers" " Through the half-open shutters the setting sun..."
January 18, 2006:   "Frogs" " The bad men want nothing to do with me..."
September 9, 2005:   "God of Reprieve and Other Small Miracles " "You can see her from the lake...."

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Other poems on the web by Jeffrey Levine:
Four poems
Five poems
"Speaking in Sleep, a Brief Meditation on the White House"
Five poems

Jeffrey Levine's Website.

Jeffrey Levine According to Wikipedia.