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Larry Levis (Larry Patrick Levis) was born on 30 September, 1946 in Fresno, California, is an American poet and teacher. Discover Larry Levis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?

Popular As Larry Patrick Levis
Occupation Poet, teacher
Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 30 September 1946
Birthday 30 September
Birthplace Fresno, California
Date of death 8 May, 1996
Died Place Richmond, Virginia
Nationality United States

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1945

Larry Levis was born in Fresno, California in 1945.

He was the fourth (and youngest) child born to William Kent Levis, a grape grower, and Carol Mayo Levis.

"”The young Levis grew up driving a tractor, picking grapes, and pruning vines in Selma, California, a small fruit-growing town in the San Joaquin Valley. He later wrote of the farms, the vineyards, and the Mexican migrant workers that he worked alongside. He also remembered hanging out in the local billiards parlor on Selma's East Front Street, across from the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks.”"

1946

Larry Patrick Levis (September 30, 1946 – May 8, 1996) was an award-winning American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime.

Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems have appeared posthumously, and received general acclaim.

1960

By the late 1960s, Levis had written many of the poems that would appear in his first book, Wrecking Crew (1972), which won the 1971 U. S. Award of the International Poetry Forum, and included publication in the Pitt Poetry Series by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

1968

Levis earned a bachelor's degree from Fresno State College in 1968, where he had studied under Philip Levine.

1969

One of Levis's classmates at that time, poet Stephen Dunn, later wrote about their 1969-70 experience at Syracuse:""We had come to study with Philip Booth, Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass, George P. Elliott, arguably the best group of writer-teachers that existed at the time.""

Levis was married to his first wife, Barbara Campbell, from 1969 to 1973.

1970

Levis completed a master's degree from Syracuse University in 1970, where he studied under the guidance of poet Donald Justice.

1972

For Levine's classes and poetry workshops, Levis completed many of the poems that would appear in his first book of poems, Wrecking Crew (1972).

Levine and Levis formed a lifelong friendship that left a mark on both their writing and their art.

Each continued to exchange poems for critique and consultation —either by mail or in person— during the remainder of Levis's life.

1974

Levis earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1974.

While at Iowa, he renewed his friendship with David St. John, whom he'd first met at Fresno State in classes they took with Levine.

Levis taught English at the University of Missouri from 1974–1980.

1975

His second wife was Marcia Southwick, a fellow poet, whom he married on March 15, 1975.

David St. John served as best man.

1976

The Academy of American Poets named his second book, The Afterlife (1976) as a Lamont Poetry Selection.

1977

He was co-editor of Missouri Review, from 1977 to 1980.

1978

Together the couple had a son, Nicholas Southwick Levis (b.1978).

1980

From 1980 to 1992, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Utah.

where he also directed the Creative Writing Program.

They were together until the early 1980s, and their marriage eventually ended in divorce.

1981

His third book of poems, The Dollmaker's Ghost, was selected by Stanley Kunitz as the winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series in 1981.

1982

Other awards included a YM-YWHA Discovery award, three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship.

1988

He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Yugoslavia in 1988.

1989

His third wife was Mary Jane Hale, who he was married to from 1989 to 1990.

Along with his professional and artistic acclaim, Levis struggled with depression, alcohol and drug use throughout his life.

1992

From 1992 until his death from a heart attack in 1996, Levis was the Senior Poet and a Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

During this period of time he also taught at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Southwick later married Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, in 1992.

1996

Levis died of cardiac arrest triggered by a drug overdose, in Richmond, Virginia on May 8, 1996, at the age of 49.

1997

Levine would edit Levis's posthumously published 1997 volume, Elegy.

In his foreword to Elegy, Levine acknowledged St. John's guidance while editing that volume for publication in 1997.

2000

St. John would later edit two of Levis's posthumous publications: The Selected Levis (2000), and The Darkening Trapeze (2016).

2006

Levis’s poems are often included in many anthologies such as American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006)

Levis was married three times.

2016

In part, the 2016 documentary film about Levis, A Late Style of Fire, explores the “risks and sacrifices that are necessary to live the life of an artist.” The film shows Levis constantly wrestling with the “dark side” of artistic creation.

This included various self-destructive and “bad boy” impulses.