Poet Dana Levin will read from her work in the next installment of the Raymond Carver Reading Series

Friday, February 9, 2001, By News Staff

Poet Dana Levin will read from her work in the next installment of the Raymond Carver Reading SeriesFebruary 09, 2001Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu

Dana Levin will read from her works of poetry Feb. 14 in the next presentation of the Raymond Carver Reading Series. The reading starts at 5:45 p.m. in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall’s Gifford Auditorium. Levin is the author of a collection of poems, “In the Surgical Theatre” (American Poetry Review, 1999), that is the recipient of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. A 1998 Pushcart Prize Winner and a 1999 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Levin has also received grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Studio Center, the Ucross Foundation and New York University. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review and American Poetry Review, as well as many other journals and magazines. She is an assistant professor of humanities at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. The Raymond Carver Reading Series is supported by The College of Arts and Sciences, SU Library Associates, Stephen King, the Dr. Scholls Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, contact Chris Kennedy at 443-2173.