Levendosky, Charles

1936 - 2004

Natrona County

Biographical and Professional Information

Charles Levendosky was born into a military family in the Bronx, New York, on July 4, 1936. He first visited the state of Wyoming in 1972, and joined the "Casper Star-Tribune" in 1982. Governor Mike Sullivan appointed him Wyoming poet laureate in 1988. He wrote 12 books of poetry, beginning with "Perimeters" in 1970.

Genres

Nonfiction
Poetry
Wyoming Subjects

Titles

  • The Peeping Tom Poems (2003). Livingston, MT: Clark City Press. ISBN: 094443908X
  • Circle of Light (1995). Glendo, WY: High Plains Press. ISBN: 0931271320.
  • Ucross: The first ten years (Editor) (1992). Ucross, WY: The Ucross Foundation. ISBN: 0963375504.
  • Hands and Other Poems (1986). Norman, OK: Point Riders Press. ISBN: 0937280186.
  • Nocturnes (1982). Story, WY: Dooryard Press. ISBN: 0937160075. Drawings by Sylvia Long.
  • Traveling Through (1982). Cody, WY: Buffalo Point Press. ISBN: (?).
  • Wyoming Fragments: Poems (1981). Cody, WY: Buffalo Point Press. ISBN: (?). Drawings by John Banks.
  • A Weave of Poems (Editor) (1980). Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Council on the Arts. ISBN: (?).
  • Distances: Poems (1980). Story, WY: Dooryard Press. ISBN: 0937160016. Drawings by George Vlastos.
  • Astronomical Lesson from Acme, Wyoming (1979). New York: Poetry in Public Places. ISBN: (?).
  • For My Daughter, Alytia (1979). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. ISBN: (?).
  • Aspects of the Vertical (1978). Norman, OK: Point Riders Press. ISBN: (?).
  • Rest on the Wind (Editor) (1977). Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Council on the Arts. ISBN: (?). Co-editor Peggy Simson Curry.
  • To Tailgate a Bird (Editor) (1975). Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Council on the Arts. ISBN: (?). Co-editor Peggy Simson Curry.
  • Words and Fonts: Poems (1975). Statesboro, GA: Georgia Council for the Arts. ISBN: (?). Illustrated by Bernard Solomon.
  • Small Town America: A poem (1974). Publisher City, State: The Boxwood Press. ISBN: (?). Illustrated by Bernard Solomon.
  • Wyoming Is... (Editor) (1973). Cheyenne, WY: The Council. ISBN: (?).
  • Perimeters (1970). Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN: 0819510491.

Links

Article from Casper Star-Tribute on Levendosky's Death
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/03/16/news/casper/71d9d2e390861a2787256dff0067e347.txt


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