Peter Paul Everwine (February 14, 1930 – October 28, 2018) was an American
poet
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Life
Born on February 14, 1930, in
Detroit
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,
Michigan
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[Peter Everwine, poet and Fresno State professor emeritus, dies at 88](_blank)
/ref> Everwine grew up in western Pennsylvania, and was educated in the Midwest. In 1962, he joined Philip Levine, on the faculty of Fresno State University
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. He retired from there in 1992.
He was a senior Fulbright lecturer in American poetry at the University of Haifa
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, Israel. In 2008, he was visiting writer at Reed College
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.
Everwine is the author of seven collections of poetry. His poetry has appeared in ''The Paris Review'', ''Antaeus'', and ''American Poetry Review''.
He lived in Fresno, California
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, where he died on October 28, 2018, aged 88.
Awards
* ''Collecting the Animals'', which won the 1972 Lamont Poetry Prize
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* Stegner Fellow Stanford
* Horizon Awards 2008Guggenheim Fellowship
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Work
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Poetry books
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* ''Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart; Last Poems''. Stephen F. Austin State University Press
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at Nacagdoches, Texas. 2019. .
Translation
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* ''Working the Song Fields'', Spring 2009. (A collection of his Aztec translations)
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Anthology
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''Ploughshares''
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References
External links
"Great Books from Great Poets", ''The Olives of Oblivion '', June 09, 2008
* ttp://theindependentreviewssite.org/v2_i3/v2_i3_book_pick.html "Editors Book Pick", ''Independent Reviews'', June/July 2002*
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California State University, Fresno faculty
Writers from Fresno, California
2018 deaths
1930 births