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: (?).

• Where the Sun Goes to Sleep (Editor) (1978). Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Council on the Arts. ISBN: (?). Co-editors Peggy Simson Curry and David Fraher.

• 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