Peter Everwine

American writer (1930–2018)

Peter Everwine
Born	Peter Paul Everwine (1930-02-14)February 14, 1930 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	October 28, 2018(2018-10-28) (aged 88) Fresno, California, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	American

Peter Paul Everwine (February 14, 1930 – October 28, 2018) was an American poet.

Life

Born on February 14, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan,^[1] Everwine grew up in western Pennsylvania, and was educated in the Midwest.^[2] In 1962, he joined Philip Levine, on the faculty of Fresno State University.^[3] 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.^[4]

Everwine is the author of seven collections of poetry. His poetry has appeared in The Paris Review,^[5] Antaeus,^[6] and American Poetry Review.^[7]

He lived in Fresno, California, where he died on October 28, 2018, aged 88.^[1]

Awards

Collecting the Animals, which won the 1972 Lamont Poetry Prize.
Stegner Fellow Stanford
Horizon Awards 2008^[8]
Best American Poetry 2008^[9]
Pushcart Prize XVII^[10]
Fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts
Guggenheim Fellowship^[8] 1975

Work

"Aubade in Autumn". The New Yorker. October 15, 2007.

Poetry books

The Broken Frieze. The Hillside Press (Cornell College). 1958.
Collecting the Animals. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1972. ISBN 978-0-88748-324-0.
Keeping the Night. Penumbra Press. 1977.
Figures Made Visible in the Sadness of Time. Brighton Press. 2003.
From the Meadow: Selected and New Poems. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8229-5844-4.
Listening Long and Late. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013.
Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart; Last Poems. Stephen F. Austin State University Press at Nacagdoches, Texas. 2019. ISBN 978-1936205950.

Translation

Natan Zach (2011). The Countries We Live In: The Selected Poems of Natan Zach 1955-1979. Tavern Books. ISBN 978-1-935635-08-6.
Working the Song Fields, Spring 2009. (A collection of his Aztec translations)
Natan Zach (1982). The Static Element. Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-11318-5.
In the House of Light. Stone Wall Press. 1969. (His first book of Aztec translations )

Anthology

M. L. Williams; Christopher Buckley; David Olivera, eds. (March 15, 2001). HOW MUCH EARTH:The Fresno Poets. Heyday Books. ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6.
Christopher Buckley; Gary Young, eds. (1999). "Peter Everwine". The geography of home. Heyday Books. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5. Peter Everwine.

Ploughshares

"Rain". Ploughshares. Spring 2008. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009.
"After". Ploughshares. Winter 2007–08. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.
"One for the 5-String". Ploughshares. Winter 2007–08. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.

References

^ ^a ^b Peter Everwine, poet and Fresno State professor emeritus, dies at 88
^ Christopher Buckley; Gary Young, eds. (1999). The geography of home: California's Poetry of Place. Heyday Books. pp. 65–69. ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5. Peter Everwine.
^ "KFSR 90.7 FM - Fresno and Poetry". Archived from the original on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
^ http://web.reed.edu/visiting_writers/archive/0708.html^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "The Paris Review - Spring-Summer 1959". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
^ Antæus. Villiers Publications. 1973-01-01.
^ "The American Poetry Review Article Archives | HighBeam Research". www.highbeam.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
^ ^a ^b "Horizon Awards 2008 | Fresno Arts Council". Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
^ "The Best American Poetry 2008, Guest Edited by Charles Wright". www.bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
^ Henderson, Bill (1992-10-01). The Pushcart Prize XVII : Best of the Small Presses: 1992-1993. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9780916366773.

External links

"Great Books from Great Poets", The Olives of Oblivion , June 09, 2008
"Peter Everwine's from the meadow", July 05, 2007, THE GREAT AMERICAN PINUP
"Editors Book Pick", Independent Reviews, June/July 2002
Edward Hirsch (May 30, 2004). "Poet's Choice". The Washington Post. p. BW12. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013.