page_title: Philip Levine (poet)
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Levine (poet)
caption_attribution_description: Phil Levine by David Shankbone, New York City
context_page_description: Philip Levine was an American poet and teacher. He was best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.
  He taught for more than thirty years at California State University, Fresno. He also taught at other different schools. He was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995.
  Levine died of pancreatic cancer on February 14, 2015 in Fresno, California, aged 87.
context_section_description: Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet and teacher. He was best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. 
  He taught for more than thirty years at California State University, Fresno. He also taught at other different schools. He was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995.
  Levine died of pancreatic cancer on February 14, 2015 in Fresno, California, aged 87.
caption: Levine reading in 2006
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