Judy Katz-Levine

Judy Katz-Levine was born in Newark, New Jersey, into a musical family. She graduated from Simmons College. Katz-Levine audited a course at M.I.T. with Denise Levertov, who was a great influence on her work. She has published two full-length collections of poetry WHEN THE ARMS OF OUR DREAMS EMBRACE (SARU, 1991) and OCARINA (Tarsier/SARU, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The Sun, FENCE, Mother Jones, Salamander, The Plaza (Japan), Origin 2008, 96 Inc., Istanbul Literary Review, The Bitter...See more

Judy Katz-Levine was born in Newark, New Jersey, into a musical family. She graduated from Simmons College. Katz-Levine audited a course at M.I.T. with Denise Levertov, who was a great influence on her work. She has published two full-length collections of poetry WHEN THE ARMS OF OUR DREAMS EMBRACE (SARU, 1991) and OCARINA (Tarsier/SARU, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The Sun, FENCE, Mother Jones, Salamander, The Plaza (Japan), Origin 2008, 96 Inc., Istanbul Literary Review, The Bitter Oleander, and myriad other magazines. She won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, and her poem "What I Didn't Know" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. See less