Peter Everwine Explained

Peter Everwine
Birth Name:	Peter Paul Everwine
Birth Date:	14 February 1930
Birth Place:	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Death Place:	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.

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. October 15, 2007 . The New Yorker .

Poetry books

• Book: The Broken Frieze. The Hillside Press (Cornell College). 1958.
• Book: Collecting the Animals. 1972 . Carnegie Mellon University Press. 978-0-88748-324-0.
• Book: Keeping the Night. Penumbra Press . 1977.
• Book: Figures Made Visible in the Sadness of Time. Brighton Press. 2003.
• Book: From the Meadow: Selected and New Poems. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. 978-0-8229-5844-4.
• Book: 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. .

Translation

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

Anthology

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

Ploughshares

• Rain . Spring 2008 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091010161007/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8840 . October 10, 2009 .
• After . Winter 2007–08 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128053551/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8750 . January 28, 2016 .
• One for the 5-String . Winter 2007–08 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128053551/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8791 . January 28, 2016 .

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
• News: Poet's Choice . https://archive.today/20130209003306/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61914-2004May27?language=printer. dead. February 9, 2013. Edward Hirsch. May 30, 2004. BW12. The Washington Post.

Notes and References

1. https://fresnostatecah.com/2018/11/07/peter-everwine-poet-and-emeritus-professor-at-fresno-state-dies-at-88/ Peter Everwine, poet and Fresno State professor emeritus, dies at 88
2. Book: The geography of home: California's Poetry of Place . registration. Peter Everwine.. Christopher Buckley . Gary Young . 65–69. Heyday Books. 1999. 978-1-890771-19-5.
3. Web site: KFSR 90.7 FM - Fresno and Poetry . 2009-05-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100602142419/http://www.csufresno.edu/kfsr/barilepoetry.html . 2010-06-02 .
4. http://web.reed.edu/visiting_writers/archive/0708.html{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
5. Web site: The Paris Review - Spring-Summer 1959 . 2009-05-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090709122651/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/21 . 2009-07-09 .
6. Book: Antæus. 1973-01-01. Villiers Publications. en.
7. Web site: The American Poetry Review Article Archives HighBeam Research. https://archive.today/20130125021635/http://www.highbeam.com/The+American+Poetry+Review/publications.aspx?date=200701. dead. 2013-01-25. www.highbeam.com. 2016-04-14.
8. Web site: Horizon Awards 2008 | Fresno Arts Council . 2009-05-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509162154/http://www.fresnoartscouncil.org/node/49 . 2008-05-09 .
9. Web site: The Best American Poetry 2008, Guest Edited by Charles Wright. www.bestamericanpoetry.com. 2016-04-14.
10. Book: Henderson, Bill. The Pushcart Prize XVII : Best of the Small Presses: 1992-1993. 1992-10-01. Pushcart Press. 9780916366773. en.