Poetry as Play with Phillis Levin & Heather Dubrow

MAY 6, 202455 MIN
Poetry! What is it good for?

Poetry as Play with Phillis Levin & Heather Dubrow

MAY 6, 202455 MIN

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<p><strong>Phillis Levin’s </strong>poems have appeared in<strong> </strong>the<em>&nbsp;New Yorker</em>, the<em>&nbsp;Atlantic, Poetry</em>&nbsp;magazine<em>, Kenyon Review, among others, she</em> has also published 5 collections of poems, and edited <em>the&nbsp;sonnet anthology.&nbsp;She </em>has taught at The University of Maryland, the Unterberg Poetry Center, the New School, and New York University, and currently is professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University.&nbsp;Among her honors are the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and a residency at the American Academy in Rome</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Heather Dubrow</strong> holds the John D. Boyd Chair in the Poetic Imagination at Fordham; she specializes in early modern lyric poetry and Shakespeare.&nbsp;She also taught at the University of Wisconsin.&nbsp;Faced with the academic profession’s stigma that scholars should not be creative writers, Dubrow had given up writing poetry for twenty years, but returned to poetry in the 1990s.&nbsp;She has published two chapbooks and two collections.&nbsp;Among the journals where her poetry has appeared are Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Review.&nbsp;She was co-director of Fordham's Poets Out Loud public reading series from Fall 2009 to Summer 2020.</p><br><p>CORRECTION: Chris gave the wrong date for the publication of Phillis Levin's newest poetry book. <em>An Anthology of Rain&nbsp;</em>will be available after April 15, 2025.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>