Subject Focus: Poet Laureate Philip Levine at Wayne State University

cwesterman — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:13:00 -0500

Philip Levine, a 1950 graduate of Wayne University, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in August of this year. Levine was born in Detroit in 1928, and his poetry is concerned with labor, industry and workers. In his short time as the nation's official poet he has not refrained from political activity: he made international news this month when an autographed book of his poetry he had donated to the "People's Library" of Occupy Wall Street was among those seized by the New York City Police Department. read more »

Levine, Philip, 1928-

Subject Focus: Poet Laureate Philip Levine at Wayne State University