Anne-Marie Levine lives in New York City. She was born in Belgium and raised in Beverly Hills. She's a poet, scholar and visual artist who began to write while touring as a concert pianist. A founding board member at Poets House, she's the author of three books of poems: Euphorbia, Bus Ride to a Blue Movie, and Oral History: a Monologue. She performs solo theater pieces based on her poems and has received a NYFA grant for poetry. Anne-Marie has published essays on Gertrude Stein's politics, and on art and trauma, and has received grants from the Puffin and Vogelstein Foundations for this work. She is currently at work on a commonplace book, and the development and display of a visual arts project called Box Poems. Her art and poems may be seen on her website, www.annemarielevine.com; at www.gallerygertrudestein.com; and at www.nyqpoets.net/poet/annemarielevine Check out her live poetry reading at the Kelly Writers House (U.Penn)and watch her discussing e.e. Cummings on YouTube.