NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine, known for his detailed and personal verse about the working class, has been appointed the country's new poet laureate. The Library of Congress was to ...

Philip Levine revealed the poetry in the lives working people, and especially the people and places of his youth — in the auto factories and working class homes of urban Detroit. In a career that ...

(Reuters) - Philip Levine, a former poet laureate of the United States who won a Pulitzer Prize, has died at age 87, according to the website of the Poetry Foundation. Family or close associates of ...

"The truth of poetry is not the truth of history," according to the new poet laureate of the United States. Philip Levine's work is most famous... New Poet Laureate Philip Levine's 'Absolute Truth' ...

FRESNO, Calif. — Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died Saturday. Levine was 87.

NEW YORK - One of the country's most honored poets, Philip Levine, has received a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize. The American Academy of Poets announced last week that Levine, a Pulitzer Prize ...

Levine's work often reflected the hardships and dignity of manual labor. He died Feb. 14 in Fresno, Calif. He was 87. In 1991, Levine spoke with... Fresh Air Remembers Former U.S. Poet Laureate Philip ...

Philip Levine, the Pulitzer Prize-winner who was named the nation’s poet laureate on Wednesday, has spent much of his career listening and reflecting on the voices of America. In his new job he said ...

Sharing books on an uptown No. 1. By Helen Ouyang Mr. Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial heartland evoked the drudgery and hardships of working-class life in America. By Dwight Garner Mr.

"The truth of poetry is not the truth of history," says Philip Levine, the newly-named poet laureate of the United States. Levine is 83 years old. He grew up in Detroit, working at automobile ...

Distinguished poet Philip Levine is the author of 16 collections of poems, including The Simple Truth, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, What Work Is, winner of the National Book Award, Ashes: Poems New & ...