Toward an Autobiograph. The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines. Levine has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize and two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships. For two years, he served as chair of the Literature Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts, and he was elected a chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000. In a recent interview, Levine said he believes the future bodes well for poetry.
Nothing can kill it, even the best efforts of the worst poets and critics.
People go on needing to hear, to read, to watch, to take part, to listen. It'll survive as long as we do.