Everts, Lillian, 1898-1960

Poet and English professor, Middlebury College, Vt. Full name: Lillian Epstein Levine (Mrs. Murray Levine).

Lillian Everts (1910-1960) was a New York poet and writer (real name Lillian Epstein Levine). She conducted poetry workshops at the New York Public Library.

Lillian Everts (1910-1960) was a New York poet and writer (real name Lillian Epstein Levine).

She conducted poetry workshops at the New York Public Library.

Biographical Note

Lillian Everts was the pen name of poet Lillian Epstein Levine. She studied English literature at Brooklyn College in New York and attended both Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She studied poetics under Joseph Auslander at Columbia University in New York, and was a student of Robert Frost at the Bread Loaf Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, and of Robert Hillyer at the Harvard University Summer School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She wrote and conducted radio programs on poetry and current events, led the poetry workshop at the New York Public Library, and edited the poetry column in Writer's Journal . Everts lectured throughout the world. Her award-winning poetry and short stories appeared in such publications as the American Mercury, New York Times, Poetry Quarterly of London, La Revue Moderne, and the Saturday Review . Everts's publications included Lost Edition in 1948, In Time of Change in 1953, and Journey to the Future in 1955.

Everts married Murray Levine circa 1921. In her New York Times obituary of June 3, 1960, her age was given as 62, making her birth date circa 1898. She died either on May 31 or June 2, 1960, in New York, New York.