{{short description|American poet (born 1948)}} {{Infobox writer | name =Len Krisak | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}} | occupation = Poet | nationality = American |alma_mater = Brandeis University<br>University of Michigan | genre = Poetry }}
'''Len Krisak''' (born July 30, 1948) is an American poet.
He graduated from University of Michigan, and Brandeis University. He taught at Brandeis University, Northeastern University, and Stonehill College.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.versedaily.org/aboutlenkrisak.shtml |title = Verse Daily: Len Krisak}}</ref>
His work has appeared in ''Agenda, Commonweal, Raritan, The Sewanee Review, The Hudson Review, PN Review, The Antioch Review, Measure, The Formalist,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvjyAAAAMAAJ&q=Len+Krisak | title=The Formalist| year=2002}}</ref> The Cumberland Poetry Review, Tennessee Quarterly, Classical Outlook, Pivot, Rattapallax, and The Weekly Standard''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.thehypertexts.com/Len_Krisak_Poet_Poetry_Bio_Picture.htm |title = Len Krisak: Poet, Poetry, Picture, Bio}}</ref> He has read his work at the Newburyport Literary Festival and other sites throughout New England.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org/html/10poetry.html |title = Newburyport Literary Festival: Poetry}}</ref> He is a former member of the Powow River Poets.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://powowriverpoets.com/members/len-krisak.html |title=Powow River Poets - Len Krisak |access-date=2010-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715111046/http://powowriverpoets.com/members/len-krisak.html |archive-date=2011-07-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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 won the Gold Pocket.com National Trivia Competition.
==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}}) * ''Afterimage'' (Measure Press, 2014, {{ISBN|9781939574060}})
===As translator=== * ''The Odes of Horace'' (Carcanet, 2006, {{ISBN|978-1-85754-851-8}}) *[https://books.google.com/books?id=MfXkWEpv_DUC&q=Len+Krisak ''Virgil's Eclogues''] (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-8122-4225-6}}) *Rainer Maria Rilke: ''New Poems'' (Boydell & Brewer, 2015, {{ISBN|978-1-57113-950-4}}) *''Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0-8122-4625-4}}) *Virgil'': Aeneid'' (Focus Classical Library, 2020)
===Anthologies=== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=d8qTLjwGw8gC&dq=Len%20Krisak&pg=PA168 "Tantalus III"], ''Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths'', Editor Nina Kossman, Oxford University Press, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-19-513341-7}}
== Awards and honors == * 2000 Richard Wilbur Award * Robert Penn Warren Prize * Robert Frost Prize * 2009 Der-Hovanessian Translation Award, New England Poetry Club <ref>{{cite web|title=Archived copy|url=http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2009.htm|url-status=dead|accessdate=2011-03-22|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115514/http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2009.htm|archivedate=2011-07-27}}</ref> * Los Angeles Poetry Festival * Pinch Prize
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