Steve Kowit was born June 30, 1938, in Brooklyn, New York. Kowit is best known for his lively poetry. On his website, he jokes about the boredom of poetry readings and claims that his are "lively, entertaining, and passionate".
Over the course of his career, Kowit has received numerous awards, such as the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Atlanta Review Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Oroborus Book Award, the Tampa Review Poetry Prize, and the San Diego Book Award.
Kowit had a period of time in the Army Reserve, where he moved on to Brooklyn College. Then, he attended San Francisco State University. He was married to a woman named Mary. Kowit did not want to go to the Vietnam War, so he chose to move out of the United States and go to South and Central America until the end of the war. He continued to write poems, teach students, host poetry readings, and have workshops to help aspiring poets.
Steve died on April 2, 2015, in his sleep. A few of his poems are "Lurid Confessions," "Cutting Our Losses," "The Garden," "Joy to the Fishies," and "Last WIll." Kowit purposefully writes poems that are engaging rather than tiresome.
