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About Jeffrey Levine
Jeffrey is the author of three books of poetry: At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered (Salmon Press February 2019), Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize. His many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and the American Literary Review poetry prize. His poems have garnered 21 Pushcart nominations. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Levine is founder, Artistic Director, and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award‐winning independent literary press located in the historic NORAD Mill in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts.
Jeffrey Levine is also a photographer with many decades of experience, mainly in the deep woods with his dogs, where his interest is in re-framing not what the eye sees, but how it sees. For him, photography has been neither avocation or a vocation, but a private discipline of looking. Working without an external audience in mind, his work attends primarily to color and texture, privileging surface, light, and tonal relation over subject or narrative.he turns the lens toward color and texture.
About The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project is a global movement creating a world without hunger. We believe with communities leading, we can take on the causes of hunger together. Poverty, gender inequality, conflict and climate change are the global challenges we must face. We want a thriving planet where everyone has enough to eat, no matter where they were born, or their gender.