Anne-Marie Levine was born in Belgium and raised
in Beverly Hills. She studied philosophy at Wellesley and music
with Sascha Gorodnitzki in New York. While touring as a concert
pianist, she began to write poetry, publishing in such journals
as
Ploughshares,
Parnassus,
Tin House, American
Letters and Commentary,
CROSSCONNECT,
and The Modern Review (Spring 2006);
and in the anthologies Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New
York Poets, and Literature as Meaning (Penguin 2005).
The winner of a fellowship in poetry from the New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) she is the founder of Poets &
Performers, a reading series in New York, and a member of the
Board of Directors of Poets House. Occasionally she performs a
solo theater piece based on her poems, called
Autobiographies: Verse Monologues.
She is the author of three books of poems: Euphorbia was
published by Provincetown Arts Press, and chosen a Finalist in
the Paterson Poetry Prize. Bus Ride to a Blue Movie was
published in 2003 by
Pearl Editions.
Oral History: A Monologue
was brought out by Pearl Editions in April 2005.
She is a founding member of the International Trauma Center and
has spoken and published on the subject of trauma and art here,
in France, and in Israel. Her essay, “Trauma, Art, and Poetic
Knowledge,” appeared in Provincetown Arts Magazine. Her essay “Gertrude
Stein’s War” appeared in Contemporary French Civilization,
and another essay on Stein’s politics appeared in the Yale
Journal, THEATER. She has received grants from the Ludwig
Vogelstein Foundation and the Puffin Foundation for this work.
Her current projects include a book which combines text and
image, and the development and display of a visual arts project
called Box Poems.
Her miniature work, which ranges from paintings to furnished
rooms to small abstract sculptures, to digital prints, has been
exhibited at the Lucy Daniels Foundation in North Carolina, the
City University of New York (CUNY), The Allan Stone Gallery
(NYC) and with Susan Halper Fine Arts. The work may be seen
online at
www.gallerygertrudestein.com; on Anne-Marie's website,
www.annemarielevine.com;
at the Alan Stone Gallery, at Parnassus: Poetry in Review
website. Also at Tattoo Highway's
TH13
and TH15.
Her work has been featured in Miniature Collector Magazine
(December 2006), in Poppenhuizen en Miniaturen (Holland), in 1
zu 12-Das Magazine (Germany:www.1zu12.com)
and Parnassus Vol. 29, 1 & 2. Works range from 4 x 3 inches
(paintings) to 19 x 10 x 13 inches (rooms) to 11 x 14 inches
(prints). Solo exhibitions include The Cornelia Street Cafe
(Feb.'07, digital prints), the Carl Cherry Art Center, Carmel,
CA (Dec.'07, prints and paintings), and
Sarah Lawrence College (Feb 2-March 3 '08.)
Forthcoming shows include the Riverside Museum (CA '08) and
Cornelia Street (NYC '09)
