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Peter Levitt

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Peter Levitt
Born (1946-09-02) September 2, 1946 (age 78)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • translator
NationalityCanadian
SpouseShirley Graham
Children1
Website
www.peterlevitt.com

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

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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.[1] He was in the anthology and film, Poets Against the War. He was at the 2009 Montreal Zen Poetry Festival.[2]

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

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Work

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Poetry

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

Essays

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Editor / Translator

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References

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  1. ^ "Peter LEVITT, BC Author Bank". BC Bookworld.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2009-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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