Tor House is now open for full indoor and outdoor tours on Saturdays only. You can find her work in The Bellingham Review, American Journal of Poetry, Tahoma Literary Review, and anthologized in They Said, Black Lawrence Press, 2018.TOR HOUSE IS OPEN FOR FULL TOURS ON SATURDAYS Stella teaches poetry to women in domestic violence and homeless shelters through WingSpan Poetry Project in Santa Fe, NM. She is the 2018 winner of the Tusculum Review chapbook contest for Origami, judged by Emilia Phillips. Stella Reed is the co-author of We Are Meant to Carry Water, 2019, 3: A Taos Press along with Tina Carlson and Katherine DiBella Seluja. Father of a son and daughter, he is married to the artist Jane Shoenfeld and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico He has volunteered with Earthwatch and Enkosini as a species preservation activist and currently volunteers as a US citizenship tutor with Santa Fe Literacy Volunteers. His poems have appeared in such journals as Bloomsbury Review, Columbia, Commonweal, Comstock Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Hollins Critic, Hunger Mountain, Notre Dame Review, Poet & Critic, Poet Lore, Quiddity, Southern Poetry Review, Stand, and Yemassee. His 6 th full-length poetry book, The Water Leveling with Us, placed second in the 2015 National Federation of Press Women Creative Verse Book Competition and his 7 th book, Coltrane’ s God, was Runner-Up for the 2016 New England Book Festival Contest in poetry. More recent honors include the 2014 Literal Latté Award, the 2017 Tor House Foundation Robinson Jeffers Prize, and the 2018 Carve Contest Winner. In addition to winning a NEA Fellowship, Levering won the Quest for Peace Prize in rhetoric and was featured in the Academy of American Poets Forum and the Duende Reading Series. His MFA in creative writing is from Bowling Green Ohio State University. He has worked as a teacher on the Diné reservation, groundskeeper, and human services administrator. Santa Fe poets Levering and Reed read new poetry from recently published works.ĭonald Levering was born in Kansas City and grew up there and in Oceanside, New York.

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