Philip Levine

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best…

I realized poetry’s the thing that I can do ’cause I can stick at it…

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You’ll have that readership…

There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and…

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the…

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and…