Len Krisak Explained

Len Krisak
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Brandeis University University of Michigan
Genre:	Poetry

Len Krisak (born July 30, 1948) is an American poet.

He graduated from University of Michigan, and Brandeis University.He taught at Brandeis University, Northeastern University, and Stonehill College.^[1]

His work has appeared in Agenda, Commonweal, Raritan, The Sewanee Review, The Hudson Review, PN Review, The Antioch Review, Measure, The Formalist,^[2] The Cumberland Poetry Review, Tennessee Quarterly, Classical Outlook, Pivot, Rattapallax, and The Weekly Standard.^[3] He has read his work at the Newburyport Literary Festival and other sites throughout New England.^[4] He is a former member of the Powow River Poets.^[5]

He was also a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1995, winning $43,399 in four games and giving himself a berth in that year's Tournament of Champions.

Krisak also won the Gold Pocket.com National Trivia Competition.

Works

• Midland (Somers Rocks Press, 1999)
• Fugitive Child (Aralia Press, 1999)
• Even as We Speak (University of Evansville Press, 2000,)
• If Anything (WordTech Editions, 2004,)
• Afterimage (Measure Press, 2014,)

As translator

• The Odes of Horace (Carcanet, 2006,)
• Virgil's Eclogues (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010,)
• Rainer Maria Rilke

New Poems (Boydell & Brewer, 2015,)

• Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014,)
• Virgil

Aeneid (Focus Classical Library, 2020)

Anthologies

• "Tantalus III", Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths, Editor Nina Kossman, Oxford University Press, 2001,

Awards and honors

• 2000 Richard Wilbur Award
• Robert Penn Warren Prize
• Robert Frost Prize
• 2009 Der-Hovanessian Translation Award, New England Poetry Club ^[6]
• Los Angeles Poetry Festival
• Pinch Prize

Notes and References

1. Web site: Verse Daily: Len Krisak.
2. Web site: The Formalist. 2002.
3. Web site: Len Krisak: Poet, Poetry, Picture, Bio.
4. Web site: Newburyport Literary Festival: Poetry.
5. Web site: Powow River Poets - Len Krisak . 2010-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715111046/http://powowriverpoets.com/members/len-krisak.html . 2011-07-15 . dead .
6. Web site: Archived copy. dead. 2011-03-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115514/http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2009.htm. 2011-07-27.