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, ISBN 978-0-930982-53-9)
- If Anything (WordTech Editions, 2004, ISBN 9781932339079)
- Afterimage (Measure Press, 2014, ISBN 9781939574060)
As translator
- The Odes of Horace (Carcanet, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85754-851-8)
- Virgil's Eclogues (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8122-4225-6)
- Rainer Maria Rilke: New Poems (Boydell & Brewer, 2015, ISBN 978-1-57113-950-4)
- Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8122-4625-4)
- Virgil: Aeneid (Focus Classical Library, 2020)
Anthologies
- "Tantalus III", Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths, Editor Nina Kossman, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-513341-7
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
References
- ^ "Verse Daily: Len Krisak".
- ^ "The Formalist". 2002.
- ^ "Len Krisak: Poet, Poetry, Picture, Bio".
- ^ "Newburyport Literary Festival: Poetry".
- ^ "Powow River Poets - Len Krisak". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
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