The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry is an annual book contest from the Fresno State MFA program G. Hanzlicek. C. Hanzlicek was born in Owatonna, Minnesota, in 1942.
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The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2017 book contest will be judged by poet and Fresno State professor emeritus C. He is the author of nine books of poetry: Living in It, Stars (winner of the 1977 Devins Award for Poetry), Calling the Dead, A Dozen for Leah, When There Are No Secrets, Mahler: Poems and Etchings, Against Dreaming, The Cave: Selected and New Poems, and, most recently, The Lives of B
irds. He has translated Native American Songs, A Bird’s Companion, and poems from the Czech, Mirroring: Selected Poems of Vladimir Holan, which won the Robert Payne Award from the Columbia University Translation Center in 1985. In the summer of 2001, he retired from California State University, Fresno, where he taught for 35 years and was for most of those years the director of the Creative Writing Program.
"There are those rare times in my life when I know that what I'm living is in a poem I've still yet to write."
Philip Levine loved to take in a scene, until his eyes "were filled with so much seeing" he had to close them.
Does your poetry inhabit these spaces? Send us your book manuscript! The Levine Prize 2024 book contest is open now, through Sept. 30. The judge is Diana Khoi Nguyen. The fee is $25.
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The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2024 book contest is now open for submissions, through Sept. 30. This year's final judge is the poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen, and the contest coordinator is Mai Der Vang. Cost is $25. The winning book will be published by Black Lawrence Press. Visit our Submittable page for full guidelines.
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NEWS: Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Southern California author William Archila has won the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest, selected by Douglas Kearney. The prize includes a $2,000 award and publication of his poetry collection, “S is For.”
Archila’s book will be the first to be published as part of the Levine Prize’s new partnership with Black Lawrence Press. A New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, Black Lawrence Press was founded in 2004 and has been an independent company since 2014.
Archila’s “The Gravedigger’s Archaeology” (2015) won the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize and “The Art of Exile” (Bilingual Review Press, 2009) won an International Latino Book Award. He was awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship and the Alan Collins Scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is a PEN Center USA West Emerging Voices fellow. He lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land.
Archila has been published in Poetry Magazine, the American Poetry Review, AGNl, Copper Nickel, Southern Indiana Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Missouri Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and the anthologies “The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext,” “Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry,” and “The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States.” He has work forthcoming in the Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Salamander and Guesthouse.
Kearney wrote of Archila's winning manuscript:
“Searing — not merely how I’d describe William Archila’s gaze at the desperation and depredation attendant in power’s abuse, the violence do***ng the migrant, the slayings of those who stay. No, also, searing in the sense of that which burns a mark into a surface, how the poet’s prosody scorches language into the line, into the throat, into the air. Heat, here, that makes light, signal visible even from exile, even to a distracted North who may not/may only notice that ‘Yesterday a cutthroat carved a copper / who carved a cutthroat, 224 wounds / for the smallest of spoils.’ Archila tallies these wounds and those that set fire to the heart. Here, S is for searing, for song, for sorrow. S is for sunlit, for shot, for shattered. S is for sublime. Stunning. Staggering.”
Kearney also noted four manuscripts as contest finalists:
“Bluff” by Michal ‘MJ’ Jones.
“Desahógate” by Gisselle Yepes.
“Within Sky Kissing God” by Ayesha Raees.
“Bodypolitic” by Aerik Francis.
PLEASE SHARE: The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2023 book contest is now open for submissions, through Sept. 30. This year's final judge is the poet Douglas Kearney, and the contest coordinator is Mai Der Vang. Cost: $25. Visit our Submittable page for full details, and send us your best poetry manuscript!
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New on Fresno State News: Read our full news release on the 2022 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry winner, Éric Morales-Franceschini, whose manuscript SYNDROME was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera to be published by Anhinga Press.
https://www.fresnostatenews.com/2023/02/02/georgia-author-wins-2022-philip-levine-prize-for-poetry/
The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Georgia author Éric […]
EVENT: Join the Fresno State MFA program at 6 PM on Thursday 2/16 online (Zoom) for an author reading with Maya Pindyck, winner of the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Event hosted by Prof. Mai Der Vang. Free admission.
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NEWS: The Fresno State MFA program is happy to announce Georgia author Éric Morales-Franceschini as winner of the 2022 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, as selected by Juan Felipe Herrera. Éric's debut full-length collection, SYNDROME, will be published by Anhinga Press. A full news release will come soon.
Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Tampa, Florida, Éric Morales-Franceschini is a former construction worker, U.S. Army veteran, and community college graduate who now holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley and is Assistant Professor of English and Latin American Studies at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is the author of the chapbook Autopsy of a Fall (Newfound, 2021), winner of the 2020 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and The Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and Liberation (U of Virginia Press, 2022). A recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Ford foundations, his essays and poetry have been published in scholarly and literary venues including: Global South Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Age of Revolutions, Small Axe, Acentos Review, Kweli, Muzzle, AGNI, and Boston Review.
El maestro Juan Felipe also selected four finalists:
• Asnia Asim (Chicago, Illinois) — STRANGE & UNSHINING
• Jamie Wendt (Chicago, Illinois) — LAUGHING IN YIDDISH
• Liz Harms (Champaign, Illinois) — OBJECT
• Aerik Francis (Denver, Colorado) — BODYPOLITIC
Juan Felipe said of Éric's manuscript:
“This is a rare project and a necessary poetics in these times of extremist ideologies given the erosion of traditional belief systems and skewed power at large. It tackles the daily struggle for Being vs. the ongoing onslaught of erasure, forced allegiance, go-home-ism, personal and historical invisibility as a Puerto Rican. … Peoples of color, Puertoriqueños/as in this manuscript, must battle with a damaged ontology — a kind of psychological state of fracture of the colonized, unseen yet enforced by the centers and carriers of power. Let us applaud this poet for these brave poems aimed at disarming the myriad spells and stones of power cast upon us. Bravo! ¡Viva Puerto Rico!”
(Author photo by Rebecca Matthew)
Our 2021 Levine Prize winner, Maya Pindyck, is on today's encore presentation of The Slowdown with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón
Listen: https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022/12/19/encore-511-present-tense
PLEASE SHARE: Deadline to submit to the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2022 book contest is straight ahead! Send us your best manuscript via Submittable by Sept. 30. Contest coordinator Mai Der Vang selected Juan Felipe Herrera as this year's final judge.
Submit: https://bit.ly/LP22-subm
You know what work is! Send us your best manuscript for our Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2022 book contest with Anhinga Press. This year's final judge is author and activist Juan Felipe Herrera. Cost $25, deadline Sept. 30. Submit: https://bit.ly/LP22-subm
PLEASE SHARE: Submissions are now OPEN via Submittable for our Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2022 book contest with Anhinga Press. This year's final judge is Juan Felipe Herrera!
Cost: $25. Deadline: Sept. 30. Send us your best poetry manuscript! And tell a friend.
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New on YouTube: Enjoy the latest from the Fresno Poets Archive Project, featuring the great Philip Levine reading inside Fresno's Wild Blue Yonder nightclub in 1985. Includes an early version of his epic poem "A Walk with Tom Jefferson."
Watch: https://youtu.be/vvLZPS4Wk2o
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New on Fresno State News: Frances Levine, longtime university supporter, passes away at 94. Wife of beloved U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, Franny's gift of Phil's personal collection of books to the Fresno State library sparked the creation of the Philip Levine Reading Room. She was a costume designer, gardener, cookbook writer, community volunteer, more.
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NEW on Fresno State News: Read the full news release about author Maya Pindyck, winner of our 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, as selected by Carmen Giménez. Maya's book "But the Orange Tree" will be published by Anhinga Press next spring.
Story: https://bit.ly/FS-levine21
VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us at 6 PM on Thursday 2/24 on Zoom for a Fresno Poets' Association reading with the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry winner E.C. Belli, as we celebrate her new book A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep, just published with Anhinga Press.
Event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/273286628208976
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We have a winner! We are pleased to announce that Philadelphia author Maya Pindyck has won our 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry contest. Her book “But the Orange Tree” was selected by final judge Carmen Giménez and will be published by Anhinga Press. There were 796 entries. Full news release to come.
Congratulations, Maya! And thanks to all the poets who sent us their work.
NEW BOOK ALERT: You can now order a copy of E.C. Belli's latest collection, A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep, winner of our 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, as selected by Cathy Park Hong. Order this magical, lyrical book from Anhinga Press.
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PLEASE SHARE: Just a few days left to jump onto Submittable and send us your best manuscript for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry contest. This year's judge is the poet and editor Carmen Giménez Smith. Publication by Anhinga Press and a $2,000 prize. Deadline: Sept. 30. Fee: $25.
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PLEASE SHARE: The author and editor Carmen Giménez Smith is serving as the final judge for our 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest. Log on to Submittable and send us your best poetry manuscript by Sept. 30! Fee: $25.
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PLEASE SHARE: Submissions are now OPEN for our Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2021 book contest! Please visit our Submittable page for full guidelines. Final judge is Carmen Giménez Smith. Fee: $25. Deadline: Sept. 30.
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New in Poetry International journal: A review of the posthumous poetry collection by the late poet and Fresno State professor emeritus Peter Everwine.
" 'Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart' illustrates and embodies its title in expected and surprising ways."
Read: https://bit.ly/3xVUXGe
From Jacobin magazine: "The late poet laureate Philip Levine gave us a unique and loving set of portraits of the American working class. Six years after his death on Valentine’s Day, let’s mourn his absence and celebrate his work."
The late poet laureate Philip Levine gave us a unique and loving set of portraits of the American working class. Six years after his death on Valentine’s Day, let’s mourn his absence and celebrate his work.
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New on Fresno State News: The full news release on the new Philip Levine Prize for Poetry winner, E.C. Belli, whose book "A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep" was selected by Cathy Park Hong as winner of our 2020 book contest.
Read: http://bit.ly/FS-LP2020-NR
We have a winner! We are pleased to announce that Texas author E.C. Belli has won our 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry contest. Her book “A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep” was selected by final judge Cathy Park Hong and will be published by Anhinga Press. There were 940 entries. Full news release to come.
Congratulations, E.C.! And thanks to all the poets who sent us their work.
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The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2018 book contest will be judged by poet and Fresno State professor emeritus Peter Everwine.
