Walt Whitman Award
1 appearances
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Edition 24 (1998) Winner
Jan Heller Levi
ジャン・ヘラー・リーヴィ
Jan Heller Levi
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1954 （New York City）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Baltimore, Maryland → New York City → St. Gallen, Switzerland
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Professor
- Active Years
- 1995-2024
- Affiliations
- Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Walt Whitman Award | Once I Gazed at You in Wonder | — | Academy of American Poets | Winner |
| — | George Bogin Memorial Award | — | — | Poetry Society of America | Winner |
| — | Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award | — | — | Poetry Society of America | Winner |
Walt Whitman Award
1999
Work:
Once I Gazed at You in Wonder
Organization:
Academy of American Poets
Result:
Winner
George Bogin Memorial Award
Organization:
Poetry Society of America
Result:
Winner
Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
Organization:
Poetry Society of America
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Once I Gazed at You in Wonder: Poems
1999 PoetrySkyspeak: Poems
2005 PoetryBibliography
- A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, Edited by Jan Heller Levi
- Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, Edited by Jan Heller Levi
- Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Consulting Editor: Jan Heller Levi
- Once I Gazed at You in Wonder: Poems
- Skyspeak: Poems
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- conversational easespontaneityardent yet free of gushself-critical intelligence
Legacy
An American contemporary poet who teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at CUNY Hunter College. She won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for her first poetry collection Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, and also received awards from the Poetry Society of America.
Trivia
- Married to the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller.