Landis Everson

Landis Everson was a poet and painter born on October 5, 1926, in Coronado, California. He received his BA at University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in English at Columbia University in 1951. 

While at Berkeley in the 1940s and 1950s, Everson was a core member of the San Francisco Renaissance alongside his friends and fellow poets, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser. His poems have been published in Poetry, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Fulcrum, New Republic, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, and Jacket as well as chosen for publication in Locus Solus by John Ashbery. 

In October 2005, the Poetry Foundation honored Everson with the first Emily Dickinson Award, which recognizes an American poet over forty who has never published a book of poems. Everson’s first collection of poems, Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005 (Graywolf, 2006) was published through this award and included poems written between 1955 and 1960 and poems written after his return to writing, between 2003 and 2005. 

Everson died on November 17, 2007, in Mill Valley, California.