July 26th, 2010
Peter Campion’s The Lions (Chicago) won the 13th annual Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University for the best first or second book of poetry published in 2009. Campion will receive the award at a literary conference honoring the late poet Larry Levis – the namesake of the Levis Prize – on Sept. 22-24 at VCU. Campion, an assistant professor at Auburn University, is also the author of Other People (Chicago, 2005).
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