Len Krisak

Len Krisak is an American poet.

He graduated from University of Michigan, and Brandeis University. He taught at Brandeis University, Northeastern University, and Stonehill College.^[1]

His work has appeared in Agenda, Commonweal, The Hudson Review, PN Review, The Formalist,^[2] The Cumberland Poetry Review, Tennessee Quarterly, Classical Outlook, Pivot, Rattapallax, The Weekly Standard.^[3] He read at Newburyport Literary Festival.^[4] He is a part of the Powow River Poets.^[5]

He was also a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1995, winning $43,399 in four games and giving himself a berth in that year's Tournament of Champions.

Krisak also appeared on History IQ in 2001, but was eliminated in the first round.

Awards

• 2000 Richard Wilbur Award
• Robert Penn Warren Prize
• Robert Frost Prize
• 2009 Der-Hovanessian Translation Award, New England Poetry Club ^[6]
• Los Angeles Poetry Festival

Works

• Midland Somers Rocks Press 1999
• Fugitive Child, Aralia Press 1999
• Even as We Speak University of Evansville Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-930982-53-9
• If Anything, WordTech Editions, 2004, ISBN 9781932339079

Translator

• The Odes of Horace, Translator Len Krisak, Carcanet, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85754-851-8
• Virgil's Eclogues, Translator Len Krisak, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8122-4225-6

Anthologies

• "Tantalas III", Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths, Editor Nina Kossman, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-513341-7

References