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Peter Levitt

{{Short description|Canadian poet (born 1946)}}

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|name=Peter Levitt

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1946|9|2}}

|birth_place=New York City, U.S.

|occupation={{flatlist|

  • Poet
  • translator

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|nationality=Canadian

|spouse=Shirley Graham

|children=1

|website={{URL|http://www.peterlevitt.com}}

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Peter Levitt (born September 2, 1946 in New York City) is a Canadian poet and translator. He is also the founder and teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi.

Background

He has taught poetry, writing and creativity workshops and seminars around the world, including at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and as a faculty member in poetry and translation for the MFA Writers Program at Antioch University, a program he designed with Eloise Klein Healy. He emigrated to Canada in 2000 and became a citizen shortly thereafter. Once there, he taught translation in the University of British Columbia Creative Writing Optional Residency MFA Program.{{cite journal| url=http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=8477| title=Peter LEVITT, BC Author Bank| journal=BC Bookworld}} He was in the anthology and film, Poets Against the War. He was at the 2009 Montreal Zen Poetry Festival.{{Cite web |url=http://montrealzenpoetryfestival.ca/wp/index.php/memory-and-dharma-%E2%80%93-two-poets-and-a-scholar-monk-in-conversation-at-the-montreal-zen-poetry-festival/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-05-25 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710124820/http://montrealzenpoetryfestival.ca/wp/index.php/memory-and-dharma-%E2%80%93-two-poets-and-a-scholar-monk-in-conversation-at-the-montreal-zen-poetry-festival/ |archive-date=2012-07-10 |url-status=dead }}

He is the father of a daughter, Sheba, and a son, Tai, and lives with his wife, the poet Shirley Graham on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.

Awards

Work

=Poetry=

  • {{cite book| title=Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women, Translated with Rebecca Nie | publisher=Shambhala Publications| year=2022 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom | publisher=Piquant Press| year=2021 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan, Translated with Kazuaki Tanahashi | publisher=Shambhala Publications| year=2018 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master, Translated with Kazuaki Tanahashi | publisher=Shambhala Publications| year=2014 }}
  • {{cite book| title=No Beginning, No End by Jakusho Kwong, edited by Peter Levitt | publisher=Shambhala Publications| year=2010 }}
  • {{cite book| title=A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter, Translated and Retold with Kazuaki Tanahashi | publisher=Grove Atlantic| year=2004 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Within Within | publisher=Black Moss Press| year=2008 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Winter Still| publisher=Mother Tongue Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-8308-2308-6 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom | publisher=Harmony Books| year=2003 }}
  • {{cite book| title=One Hundred Butterflies| publisher=Broken Moon Press| year=1993 }}; Blissful Monkey Press 2011 (Second Edition)
  • {{cite book| title=Bright Root Dark Root| url=https://archive.org/details/brightrootdarkro0000levi| url-access=registration| publisher=Broken Moon Press| year=1992| isbn=0-913089-20-6}}
  • {{cite book| title=Bright Root Dark Root| publisher=Ambrosia Press| date=July 1989| isbn=0-913089-20-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/brightrootdarkro0000levi}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh, edited by Peter Levitt | publisher=Parallax Press| year=1987 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Homage: Leda as Virgin| publisher=Lockhart Press| year=1987 }}
  • {{cite book| title=A Book of Light| publisher=Amargi Press| year=1982 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Running Grass (Poems 1970-1977) Foreword by Robert Creeley| publisher=Eidolon Editions| year=1979}}
  • {{cite book| title=Two Bodies, Dark/Velvet| publisher=Momentum Press| year=1975 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Poems| publisher=Slow Loris Press| year=1972 }}

=Essays=

  • {{cite book| title=Fingerpainting on the Moon:Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom| publisher=Crown Publishing Group| date=July 2003| isbn=978-0-609-61048-0| url=https://archive.org/details/fingerpaintingon00levi}}

=Editor / Translator=

  • {{cite book| title=The Heart of Understanding| author=Thich Nhat Hanh| author-link=Thich Nhat Hanh| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-kGvIO4-b4C&q=Peter+Levitt| publisher=Parallax Press| year=1988| isbn=978-0-938077-11-4 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Pacific Light| author=Jay Dunitz| publisher=Beyond Words Publishing| date=January 1993| isbn=978-0-941831-23-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=No Beginning, No End: the Intimate Heart of Zen| author=Jakusho Kwong| author-link=Jakusho Kwong| publisher=Crown Publishing Group| date=March 2003| isbn=978-0-609-61080-0| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780609610800}}
  • {{Cite book| title=A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter| author=Kazuaki Tanahashi| publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Inc.| date=May 2004| isbn=978-0-8021-4133-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PMBV_iLUBk4C&q=Peter+Levitt+poet }}
  • Kazuaki Tanahashi (August 2010) Shobo Genzo: Zen Master Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, associate editor, Peter Levitt
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=6OevH4MMZ2IC The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master] (Shambhala Publications, April 2013) edited by Peter Levitt and Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan. (Shambhala Publications, 2018) Translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt {{ISBN|1611804264}}
  • Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women, Translated with Rebecca Nie. Shambhala Publications. 2022.

References

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External links

  • [http://www.peterlevitt.com/ Author's website]; [http://peterlevittblog.com/bio-2/ bio]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080719130512/http://www.zinkville.com/zinkzine/zinkzine5/Levitt.htm An Interview with Peter Levitt, Kathryn Pope, zinkville]
  • [http://ubcgrapevine.net/?p=197 "Peter Levitt Book Launch", The Grapevine, UBC]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Category:Canadian male poets

Category:Antioch University faculty

Category:1946 births

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Category:20th-century Canadian male writers

Category:Poets from British Columbia