California Poet: Congratulations to Philip Levine, Our New United States Poet Laureate!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Congratulations to Philip Levine, Our New United States Poet Laureate!

This year is turning out to be a fine one for poets I value. For example, I was happy to hear that Eduardo Corral had won the Yale Younger Poets Series Award, and now Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress. Congratulations to Phil!

Please visit Letras Latinas Blog at the following URL for more information about Philip Levine's latest honor:

http://latinopoetryreview.blogspot.com/

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About Robert Vasquez

Robert Vasquez was born and raised in California's Central Valley. The son of working-class parents, he worked in various low-paying occupations from his high school years until he went to graduate school at age 30. He earned a BA in English from California State University at Fresno and an MFA in English from the University of California at Irvine, and he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing for two years at Stanford University. His poetry has received various awards, including three Academy of American Poets prizes, three National Society of Arts & Letters awards, a National Writers Union award, and--for his book At the Rainbow (University of New Mexico Press)--the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award. His poetry has been published in various journals, including The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Missouri Review, The New England Review, The Notre Dame Review, Parnassas: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares, VerseDaily.com, and The Village Voice, and in numerous anthologies, including After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties, American Religious Poetry: An Anthology Edited by Harold Bloom, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, California the Beautiful, The Geography of Home, Highway 99, How Much Earth, Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State, Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets, Proud Harvest, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, and Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West. His chapbook, Braille for the Heart (Momotombo Press), was just published in late 2007. In 2004/05 he was the inaugural judge for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (he selected Sheryl Luna's Pity the Drowned Horses), a first-book competition sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Latino Studies and the Notre Dame Press. In the 1990s he was the King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professor in the graduate creative writing program at Western Michigan University, and he has taught creative writing at three University of California campuses, including a stint in 2000 as a Visiting Professor in the graduate creative writing program at UC Davis. Unlike many poets, Vasquez declined two university tenure-track professorships in creative writing and one community college professorhip in creative writing, partially because of his love for the Central Valley. He currently teaches at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA.

Email: robertv@cos.edu

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Congratulations to Philip Levine, Our New United States Poet Laureate!

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