Philip Levine Prize
Current & Past Winners
Shane Seely is the winner of the 2008 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry for his manuscript, The Snowbound House.
Shane is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches composition and creative writing and acts as Assistant Director of the university’s freshman writing program. A native of northern Pennsylvania, he was educated in Pennsylvania, Kansas, and New York. He earned an MFA in creative writing at Syracuse University. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and their dog.
His poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Arts & Letters, Notre Dame Review, Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals, and on the Poetry Daily website. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best Young Poets 2008.
Dorianne Laux was the final judge. Five finalists were chosen:
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, The Fox Bride; Deborah Burnham, Simplified to Blue; Doug Ramspeck, The Road Up and the Road Down; Alex Grant, Fear of Moving Water; and Lisa Parker, Bloodroot.
Previous Winners:
2007: Neil Aitken, The Lost Country of Sight
Final Judge: C. G. Hanzlicek
2006: Lynn Chandhok, The View From Zero Bridge
Final Judge: Corrine Clegg Hales
2005: Roxanne Beth Johnson, Jubilee
Final Judge: Philip Levine
2003 - 2004: The Philip Levine Prize was suspended for the 2003 - 04 academic year
2002: Steve Gehrke, The Pyramids of Malpighi
Final Judge: Philip Levine
2001: Fleda Brown, Breathing In, Breathing Out
Final Judge: Philip Levine