Image’s first Levertov Award goes to Madeline DeFrees
The worlds of two writers overlapped for me one evening in May 2004.
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Denise Levertov Award •
On Books & Writing •
Madeleine DeFrees •
Martha Geis •
Journal Entry
Congratulations to Madeline DeFrees, who I had the pleasure of meeting unexpectedly on Sunday at Elliott Bay Bookstore while standing in line to have a book signed by another author.
DeFrees is the first recipient of the Denise Levertov Award from Image.
If you want to know why... check this out.
And, since I mentioned it, I met her after a reading by Martha Geis, celebrating the release of her wonderful new book of interviews with the night-walkers of Portland, Oregon: Up All Night.
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2025 Update: Since the link in this original May 2004 post, which pointed to some local news, has vanished from the internets, I offer instead this: the poet Jennifer Maier’s interview with Madeline DeFrees.