Donald Levering
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Donald Levering infuses his poems with physical details that serve as stepping stones to the spiritual life.
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Levering's
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writing...abounds in physical details, and he uses them like Thoreau, as stepping stones to the spiritual life... --
Victor Contoski
About the Author
Born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1949, Donald Levering has worked as a laborer in a grain elevator in Kansas, a groundskeeper in Oregon, an English instructor in the Navajo Nation, and a human services administrator in New Mexico. He was educated at the University of Kansas, Baker University, Lewis and Clark College, and Bowling Breen Ohio State University (MFA), where he was a Devine Memorial Fellow in Poetry. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Poetry. His previous poetry publications include three chapbooks, The Jack of Spring (Swamp Press, 1980), Carpool (Tellus, 1983), and Mister Ubiquity (Pudding House, 1997), and a volume, Outcroppings From Navajoland (Navajo Community College Press, 1985). He lives with his wife, daughter, and son in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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