Peter Levitt
Peter Levitt (born September 2, 1946 in New York City) is a poet and translator. He is also the founder and teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi. Background. He has taught poetry, writing and creativity workshops and seminars around the world, including at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Naropa Institute "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics", and as a faculty member in poetry and translation for the MFA Writers Program at Antioch University. He emigrated to Canada in 2000 and became a citizen shortly thereafter . He is an instructor in the University of British Columbia Creative Writing Optional Residency MFA Program. He was in the anthology and film, "Poets Against the War". He was at the 2009 Montreal Zen Poetry Festival. He lives with his wife, poet Shirley Graham, and their son, Tai, on one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia.