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AWP Offsite: Denise Levertov Celebration
Join poets and writers Claudia Castro Luna, Jan Wallace, Paul Constant, and Madhur Anand for a reading in celebration of Denise Levertov's work and life. Denise Levertov spent the last years of her life living in Seattle where her remains lie. She was one of the founding board members of the venerable Copper Canyon Press, alongside Rick Simonson of Elliott Bay Books who will join us for part of the evening. Bring your favorite Levertov poem or anecdote to share. This is a communal event to commemorate the iconic and beloved poet and writer that was Denise Levertov.
Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). Castro Luna is the author of Cipota Under the Moon (Tia Chucha Press, 2022); One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press); the Pushcart nominated Killing MarÃas (Two Sylvias Press) also shortlisted for WA State 2018 Book Award in poetry, and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press). Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage). Born in El Salvador, she came to the United States in 1981. Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children.
Jan Wallace’s poetry and essays have appeared in journals such as Terrain.org, Field, and Arcade. She held an International Writer’s Fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, UK. Her poetry collection, Nothing Like the Doll You Learned On was the 2019 winner of the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize Book Award. The essays in Mouth to Mouth includes stories about time spent with Denise Levertov, her mentor and friend.
Paul Constant is a writer, journalist, and co-founder of the Seattle Review of Books. He writes about books for a number of newspapers and websites.
Madhur Anand debut book of prose This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was named the "top pick" for Spring poetry by the CBC. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.
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