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Philip Levine 80th Birthday Tribute
Thursday, November 29th, 7:00pm
Great Hall, Cooper Union, East 7th Street
Free and Open to the Public
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Dear Poetry Lovers,
If you're in New York City on Thursday, November 28th, 2007, don't miss a special 80th birthday tribute and reading featuring Philip Levine with Kate Daniels, E.L. Doctorow, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Malena Mörling, Sharon Olds, Tom Sleigh, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine and Charles Wright.
Philip Levine was born in Detroit and is the author of
16 collections of poetry, most recently Breath. His other
books include The Simple Truth, which won the Pulitzer
Prize; What Work Is, which won the National Book
Award; The Names of the Lost; Ashes: Poems New and
Old and 7 Years From Somewhere, both of which won the
National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the distinguished
Poet-in-Residence in the Creative Writing Program at NYU.
Co-sponsored with the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry
Center, the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem
Foundation, Cooper Union, Knopf, Poets House, Society of America and Poets & Writers.
Hope to see you there!
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