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, as well as various online journals;
and in the anthologies Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New
York Poets (Melville House), Literature as Meaning (Penguin 2005),
and Letters to the World (Red Hen Press).
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 was a founding member of the
Board of Directors of Poets House and of the poetry
journal Parnassus. Occasionally she performs a
solo theater piece based on her poems, called
Autobiographies: Verse Monologues.
Her book of poems, Euphorbia was
published by Provincetown Arts Press (1994 & 1999) 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.
Her artists book Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter
appeared in 2015.
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, 1997. Her essay “Gertrude
Stein’s War” appeared in Contemporary
French Civilization, Summer/Fall 1999 and another
essay on Stein's politics appeared in the Yale
Journal, THEATER, in 2002. She has received grants
from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Puffin
Foundation for this work. Her current projects
include the continuation of the Male Nude series,
and a book called OBIT. She continues to curate
programs in the arts and humanities at the
Helix Center
of the NY Psychoanalytic Institute.
Her visual work ranges from paintings to furnished
rooms; from small abstract sculptures to digital prints
to photo/paintings (also digital). It has been
exhibited at The Elizabeth Foundation (NYC, "Progeny!" 2017), the Living Gallery in Brooklyn, 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 (NYC).
Solo exhibitions include The Cornelia Street Cafe
(2/07 and 2/09, digital prints) The Carl Cherry Art Center, Carmel CA
(12/07, prints and miniature paintings), and Sarah Lawrence
College (2/08, prints and miniature paintings).
The work may be seen
online and has been featured in
Miniature Collector Magazine, Poppenhuizen en Miniaturen (Holland), in 1
zu 12-Das Magazine (Germany)
and Parnassus Vol. 29, 1 & 2.
Provincetown Arts (2008, p.70)
features an essay by Lise Motherwell called "Homo Ludens: The
Boxpoems of Anne-Marie Levine." A feature profile: "Small is Powerful", pps.22-23 appears in DollsHouse and Miniature Scene Magazine (British), October 2010 issue 196.
Works range from 3 x 3 inches (paintings on wood) to 19 x 10 x 13 inches
(rooms) to 13 x 19 inches (prints).
Prices available upon request at
info@annemarielevine.com.