The Poetry and Poetic Life of Denise Levertov

Welcome to the website for the 2015 conference:
“this need to dance / this need to kneel” The Poetry and Poetic Life of Denise Levertov.

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The conference will take place October 23-24, 2015 at Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus, in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood.

Featured speakers include:

Dana Greene, author of Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life
Donna Hollenberg, author of A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
Albert Gelpi, author of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov: The Poetry of Politics, the
          Politics of Poetry
Mary Gordon author of The Liar’s Wife: Four Novellas

This conference is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago’s Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (www.luc.edu/ccih).