Poetry. Jewish Studies. Judy Katz-Levine has been noted for the luminous virtuosity of her imagery, her alternately freneticand rhapsodic dream poems, her daring reprises on the poems, paintings and music of other artists and the bold musicality of her rhythms. Denise Levertov said of her early work, "Her words move through the field of a poem's discourse like the feet of a small deer crossing a tract of brush." SARU's edition of her WHEN THE ARMS OF OUR DREAMS EMBRACE (1991)is also still inprint.

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Judy Katz-Levine was born in Newark, New Jersey, into a musical family. She graduated from Simmons College. Katz-Levine audited a course at M.I.T. with Denise Levertov, who was a great influence on her work. She has published two full-length collections of poetry WHEN THE ARMS OF OUR DREAMS EMBRACE (SARU, 1991) and OCARINA (Tarsier/SARU, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The Sun, FENCE, Mother Jones, Salamander, The Plaza (Japan), Origin 2008, 96 Inc., Istanbul Literary Review, The Bitter Oleander, and myriad other magazines. She won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, and her poem "What I Didn't Know" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.