Phillis Levin

Phillis Levin is the author of six poetry collections: An Anthology of Rain (Barrow Street Press, 2025); Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; May Day (Penguin); Mercury (Penguin); The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press); and Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (Penguin).

Widely anthologized, her work has been published in The Best American Poetry (1989, 1998, and 2009), Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS (Michael Klein, editor), Poetry 180 (Billy Collins, editor), The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (Kevin Young, editor), Poems of New York (Elizabeth Schmidt, editor), and A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 (Kevin Young, editor).

Levin’s other honors include a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Trust of Amy Lowell. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Barrow Street, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Plume, PN Review, Poem-a-Day, Poetry, Poetry London, The Poetry Review (UK), TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

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