Peter Everwine
Peter Paul Everwine was an American poet.
Life
Born on February 14, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan, 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. He retired from there in 1992.He was a senior Fulbright lecturer in American poetry at the University of Haifa, Israel. In 2008, he was visiting writer at Reed College.
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, where he died on October 28, 2018, aged 88.
Awards
Collecting the Animals, which won the 1972 Lamont Poetry Prize.- Stegner Fellow Stanford
- Horizon Awards 2008
- Best American Poetry 2008
- Pushcart Prize XVII
- Fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1975
Work
*Poetry books
Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart; Last Poems. Stephen F. Austin State University Press at Nacagdoches, Texas. 2019..Translation
Working the Song Fields, Spring 2009.*