Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press, this authoritative Web site includes several of Levine's poems, an extensive bibliography of Levine's work, and links to the Atlantic Monthly's poetry collection. It also features the work and biographies of other prominent poets, including Yusef Komunyakaa, Seamus Heaney, and Margaret Walker.

The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/plevifst.htm

This official site of the Academy of American Poets features a biography of Levine as well as links to Levine information on the Web. Check this site for RealAudio clips of poems read by Frank Bidart, Heather McHugh, Charles Simic, and others, a calendar of Academy events, awards and programs offered by the Academy, and biographical information on many other poets.

Poetry Daily: Philip Levine
http://www.cstone.net/~poems/simpllev.htm

Check this site for the text of Levine's "On the Meeting of García Lorca and Hart Crane," a biography and photo of the author, and praise for The Simple Truth, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1995.

A Useful Poetry: An Interview with Philip Levine
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/levine.htm

This site include a recent interview with Levine in which he discusses his non-fiction book The Bread of Time, his opinion on "schools" of writing and literary movements, the difference between poetry performance and poetry on the page, and the influence of Spanish poets on his own work.

BIOGRAPHY
Philip Levine (b. 1928) is a leading contemporary American poet. Much of his writing deals with his youth in the industrial city of Detroit, especially his work in various factories there. He won the National Book Award for his 1991 volume What Work Is.