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Poetry Reading at Storm King Art Center
PHILIP LEVINE, AMERICAN POET LAUREATE (2011-2012),
READS AT STORM KING ART CENTER ON APRIL 20
WHAT
Eminent poet Philip Levine (Poet Laureate of the United States 2011-12, and Pulitzer Prize winner) will read from his work at Storm King Art Center in a special afternoon program.
Mr. Levine is known for his verse about the urban landscape and the trials of the working class. Upon Mr. Levine's appointment as Poet Laureate, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement, "Philip Levine is one of America's great narrative poets. His plainspoken lyricism has, for half a century, championed the art of telling 'The Simple Truth'--about working in a Detroit auto factory, as he has, and about the hard work we do to make sense of our lives."
The program is generously supported by The Maurice English Poetry Award through Helen W. Drutt English, and is free with admission. Mr. Levine will sign copies of his books after the reading.
WHEN
Saturday, April 20, 2013, 2:00 pm
WHERE
Storm King Art Center
Old Pleasant Hill Road
Mountainville, New York 10953
(For GPS, enter 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, NY)
PHILIP LEVINE
Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1928, to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Philip Levine received degrees from Wayne State University and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was awarded the Jones Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford in 1957. As a student, he worked a number of industrial jobs at Detroit's auto-manufacturing plants. The experience and the city continue to influence his poetry. Levine taught for many years at California State University, Fresno, where he is professor emeritus in the English Department. He has also taught at New York University as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, as well as at Columbia, Princeton, Brown and Tufts universities, the University of California at Berkeley and elsewhere.
Mr. Levine is the author of twenty collections of poems, including, most recently, News of the World (2009), which The New York Times Sunday Book Review described as "characteristically wise." He won a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for The Simple Truth, the National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is and in 1980 for Ashes: Poems New and Old, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 for both Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere, and the 1975 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Names of the Lost.
Mr. Levine's nonfiction books include So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (2002); The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994); and Don't Ask (1981). Additional awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize, two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1997, Mr. Levine was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Fresno.
MAURICE ENGLISH POETRY AWARD
The Maurice English Poetry Award (MEPA) was established by Helen Drutt English in 1985 to support annual poetry awards and events. Since 2007, MEPA has co-sponsored readings at Storm King Art Center featuring poets Ulla Hahn, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, Noami Shibah Nye, and Kay Ryan. Maurice English (1909-1983) was a poet, translator, publisher, and journalist who served as director of Voice of America for Italy during World War II. He was founding editor of Chicago Magazine, senior editor of University of Chicago Press, founding director of Temple University Press, and director of the University of Pennsylvania Press. In addition to publishing three books of poetry, he translated the works of Eugenio Montale.
STORM KING ART CENTER
Widely celebrated as one of the world's leading sculpture parks, Storm King is located about one hour north of the George Washington Bridge, in the
lower Hudson Valley. The pristine 500-acre landscaperis provides the setting for a collection of more than 100 sculptures created by some of the most acclaimed artists of our time. This year, Storm King presents a special exhibition, Thomas Houseago: As I Went Out One Morning, and an installation titled David
Brooks: A Proverbial Machine in the Garden. A rich roster of public programs is offered free with admission.
Storm King's 2013 season runs from April 3 through December 1: Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm (grounds open until 8:00 pm on Saturdays, Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends; until 5:00 pm in November). Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, except for the Monday holidays marking Memorial, Labor, Columbus, and Veterans' days. Admission is $12; $10 for senior citizens (65 and older); $8 for college students with a valid ID and students in grades K-12. Children under five and members receive free admission. Discounts are available for groups of fifteen or more with advance registration. The Storm King Café is open from 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. (to 7:30 pm on Saturdays, Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends). Picnicking is permitted in designated areas.
Public transportation from New York City to Storm King is provided by Coach USA/Short Line Bus from the Port Authority Bus Terminal and New Jersey Transit and Metro-North Railroad from Pennsylvania Station.
For additional information and transportation options, the public may visit www.stormkingartcenter.org or follow Storm King on Facebook and Twitter.
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