Our featured poet for June is Mark Pawlak, reading from his memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov (MadHat Press, 2021) his work on the poet Denise Levertov. We will meet in person at the John Greenleaf Whitter Home in Amesbury. .

Mark Pawlak is the author of nine poetry collections and the editor of six anthologies, most recently Reconnaissance: New and Selected Poems and Poetic Journals (Hanging Loose, 2016) Pawlak’s work has been translated into German, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and has been performed at Teatr Polski in Warsaw. In English, his poems and prose have appeared widely in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Anthology of Poetic Journals and in the literary magazines New American Writing, Mother Jones, Poetry South, The Saint Ann’s Review, and The World, among many others. His latest publication is the book-length memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov (MadHat Press, 2021). He supports his poetry habit by teaching mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.