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Join poet and editor Mark Pawlak as he reads from his memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov and shares lessons learned from his mentor about how to live and work productively as a poet. Pawlak will also read selections from Levertov’s body of work and discuss her nearly two decades living and teaching in the Boston area. Audience members are invited to bring and share a favorite (short!) Levertov poem. Copies of Pawlak’s memoir will be available for sale, as well.
Read just a bit about Denise Levertov HERE and why she inspired Mark, and continues to inspire poets and writers around the world.
Mark Pawlak is the author of nine poetry collections and the editor of six anthologies; most recent Reconnaissance: New and Selected Poems and Poetic Journals (2016). Pawlak’s poems and prose has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, and Polish, and haVE been performed at Teatre Polski in Warsaw. For the past forty years, Pawlak has been a co-editor of the Brooklyn, New York-based poetry journal and literary press Hanging Loose. To support his writing habits, he teaches mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Cambridge. My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov is his new book-length memoir.