Peter Levitt

Peter Levitt’s books of poetry, prose, and translation include One Hundred Butterflies, Within Within, Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom, and his collaborative translations with Kazuaki Tanahashi, The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan, A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter, and The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master. In 1989, he received the Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry. He is the founding and guiding teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with his wife, poet Shirley Graham.