Linda Bamber and Miriam Levine: Poets in Conversation 9/19 @5pm - Ptown

East End Books Ptown Presents: Linda Bamber and Miriam Levine: Poets in Conversation 9/19 @5pm - Ptown

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Linda Bamber and Miriam Levine: Poets in Conversation

Linda and Miriam met in graduate school and have been talking about poems ever since. Each will select some poems of each other’s for each other to read and offer a few words of commentary on what they love about them. Linda will read her poem “Provincetown,” and Miriam will read a poem by a Provincetown author.

Miriam Levine is the author of Forget about Sleep, her sixth poetry collection, winner of the 2023 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award. Another collection, The Dark Opens, was chosen by Mark Doty for the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Other books include: Devotion, a memoir; In Paterson, a novel. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares. Levine, winner of a Pushcart Prize, is a fellow of the NEA and a grantee of the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. She lives in Florida and New Hampshire. For more information about her work, please go to miriamlevine.com.

Linda Bamber is Professor Emerita of English at Tufts University. She has published both poetry (Metropolitan Tang) and fiction (Taking What I Like) with David R. Godine, Publisher. Her scholarly book on Shakespeare, Comic Women, Tragic Men, was published by Stanford University Press. Bamber has published in The Harvard Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, The New York Times Book Review, The Kenyon Review, The Florida Review, and The Missouri Review and elsewhere. She is currently writing a novella based on the cross-country expedition of Lewis and Clark. She lives in Cambridge, Mass with outposts in Warren, Rhode Island; Flamingo, Costa Rica; and New York City. For further information please visit her website, lindabamberwriter.com.

Forget about Sleep

Ardent, intimate poems by a bold poet of sensual and spiritual life . . .

Miriam Levine's Forget about Sleep portrays the gifts and perils of aging as she remembers lost lovers, friends, beloved family, and celebrates treasured places and the near and dear still alive. These bold poems of sensual and spiritual life move from gritty Northern New Jersey to New England and Florida, from interior spaces to landscapes and the gardens she tends.

Miriam Levine is the author of Saving Daylight, her fifth collection of poetry. Another collection, The Dark Opens, was chosen by Mark Doty for the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Other books include: Devotion, a memoir; In Paterson, a novel. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares. Levine, a fellow of the NEA and a grantee of the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, lives in Florida and New Hampshire. For more information about her work, please go to miriamlevine.com.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

East End Books Ptown, 389 Commercial Street, Provincetown, United States