03/08/2010 7:00 pm
Monday, March 8th at 7 pm at McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince St, NYC
Poetry Reading/Book Launch - Harriet Levin (Millan) and Toni Mergentime Levi will read from their new books.
Hosted by author Cheryl Pearl Sucher (The Rescue of Memory), this reading by two vibrant, candid, lyrical poets promises to be an exciting and memorable evening. Books may be purchased and inscribed at the event. No reservations required, but come early for good seating. You’ll also enjoy browsing in this lovely bookstore.
Toni Mergentime Levi is a poet and librettist. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and numerous journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Crosscurrents, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, Apalachee Quarterly, The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, and The Word Thursdays Anthology of Poetry and Fiction. Thanksgiving, one of two operas and several other collaborations with composer Paul Alan Levi, won a Grand Prize for new opera, sponsored by the National Music Theatre Network and Seagram’s. A native New Yorker, Toni Levi lives in Manhattan. WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR is her third full-length collection. Her first book of poems, FOR A DANCING BEAR, was published by Three Mile Harbor in 1995. (See www.tonilevi.com/poet-librettist/index.html.)
A 2009 National Poetry Series finalist, GIRL IN CAP AND GOWN (Mammoth Books) is Harriet Levin’s second book of poems. Her first book, THE CHRISTMAS SHOW (Beacon Press), was chosen by Eavan Boland for a Barnard New Women Poet's Prize and won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and an Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Prize. The book was also a Philadelphia Inquirer Notable Book of the Year. Her poems have been widely published appearing in journals such as the Antioch Review, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Many Mountains Moving, New Letters, The Partisan Review, Ploughshares and Prairie Schooner and have been anthologized in BOOMER GIRLS (University of Iowa Press). Selections of her poetry were put to music by composer Shawn Crouch and performed at Yale University and at Tanglewood. She lives in Philadelphia where she is Director of the Writing Program at Drexel University.
