Philip Levine won the National Book Award with What Work Is (Knopf). In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize, also for poetry, with The Simple Truth (Knopf). In April 1999, Knopf published his new book, The Mercy

Poets in this volume: Amy Beeder, Nate Chinen, Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, Nick Flynn, Jeff Hardin, Mary Crockett Hill, Frederic Koeppel, Rick Liljegren, Thomas David Lisk, Deanne Lundin, Jerry McGuire, Christian Nagle, Simon Perchik, M. Rebecca Ransom, Kathryn Rantala, Don Riggs, Karen Skolfield, Ruth Stone, Rodney Torrenson, Karla Van Vliet, Leslie Williams, Anne Harding Woodworth, Herman Beavers, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Daniel Nester Christopher Connelly, Tracey Knapp, Carley Moore, Tim Suermondt, Richard Tayson, Michele Wolf, Raphael C. Allison, Priscilla Atkins, John Bargowski, Wendy Barker, Eric Birkholz, Bruce Bond, Grant Clauser, Samuel Exler, Jeffrey Franklin, Martin Graber, Kim Horner, Michael Hudson, Candace McClelland, Wayne Miller, Kristy Nielsen, Julia Story, Kyoko Uchida, Joe Wenderoth, Molly Bendall, Sean Hill, Sandra Kohler, Kelly LeFave, Ethan Paquin, Joanna Scott, Sean Singer, Brian Teare, Bob Holman, Katrine Marie Guldager, Anne Mette Lundtofte, Nora Iuga, Adam J. Sorkin, Eugen Jebeleanu, Matthew Zapruder, Radu Ioanid, Yang Lian, Niels Lyngso, Gregory Pardlo, Rainer Maria Rilke, Annie Boutelle, Jacques Roubaud, Elena Karina Byrne, Colin A. Clarke, Alison H. Deming, William E. Dudley, Sascha Feinstein, Daniel Kane, Ada Limon, Carley Moore, Kate Northrop, Jessy Randall, T. B. Rudy, Charles Harper Webb, Ellen Wehle, Max Zimmer, Lisa Beskin, Regie Cabico, C. A. Conrad, Kevin DiNovis, Ross Martin, Ander Monson, Daniel Nester, Elizabeth Scanlon