Len Krisak

He graduated from University of Michigan, and Brandeis University. He taught at Brandeis University, Northeastern University, and Stonehill College.[1]

Len Krisak is an American poet.

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..

Awards
  • 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

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

Translator
  • The Odes of Horace, Translator Len Krisak, Carcanet, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85754-851-8
  • Virgil's Eclogues, Translator Len Krisak, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8122-4225-6
  • Rilke's New Poems, Boydell & Brewer, 2015, ISBN 978-1-57113-950-4
  • Ovid's Erotic Poems, University of Pennsylvania Press,ISBN 978-0-8122-4625-4

Anthologies
  • "Tantalus III", Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths, Editor Nina Kossman, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-513341-7

References
  1. "Verse Daily: Len Krisak".
  2. "The Formalist". 2002.
  3. "Len Krisak: Poet, Poetry, Picture, Bio".
  4. "Newburyport Literary Festival: Poetry".
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-05-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-03-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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