Jan Heller Levi

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Jan Heller Levi (* 1954 in New York ) is an American poet .

Heller Levi grew up in Baltimore , spent a year at Beloit College in Wisconsin and graduated with a BA in 1977 . She worked as a freelance writer for several years and took care of public relations, for example. B. Carnegie Hall , Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art . After spending a year in Europe, she moved to an art magazine , probably under the influence of her first husband, Ken Sofer . From 1978 to 1980 she was Muriel Rukeyser's personal assistant . Today she lives with her second husband, the Swiss writer Christoph Keller , at times in Manhattan , at times in St. Gallen . She worked for the Times until 1996 . In addition to working on her own poems, she also took on teaching positions at times, for example at Hunter , at Sarah Lawrence College and at the Poetry Center of 92nd Street . She also acts as editor and biographer.

Works

  • Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, 1999
  • Skyspeak, 2005
  • (Ed.), A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, 1994
  • (Ed.), The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
  • (Ed., With Sara Miles ), Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

Awards

  • Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (for Once I Gazed at You in Wonder) (1998)
  • George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (1998)
  • Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America

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personal data
SURNAME Heller Levi, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH new York