{"id":13855,"date":"2012-11-21T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2013-05-10T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:45:45","slug":"dana-greene-on-poet-denise-levertov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2012\/11\/21\/dana-greene-on-poet-denise-levertov\/13855\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Greene on Poet Denise Levertov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode.1611.dana.greene.levertov.m4v -->Watch our October 24 interview at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC with biographer Dana Greene, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/83tfz7nx9780252037108.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Denise Levertov: A Poet\u2019s Life<\/em><\/a> (University of Illinois Press, 2012).  Levertov (1923-1997) was a poet of doubt and faith, Christianity and Judaism, war and peace, protest, lament, nature, spirituality, and more. Her life and poetic development, both religious in their origins, are gracefully captured in Greene\u2019s acclaimed new biography, described as \u201can authoritative portrait of one of the central figures in American poetry of the last fifty years.\u201d Levertov\u2019s photograph by David Geier is part of the Smithsonian\u2019s National Portrait Gallery exhibition on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.si.edu\/exhibit\/poets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets<\/a>,\u201d curated by David C. Ward. <em>Produced by Lauren Talley. Edited by Fred Yi. Interview by Missy Daniel.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is a profound sense of the divine sparks of God being everywhere and that the role of the devoted person is to bring those divine sparks together again.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2012\/11\/21\/dana-greene-on-poet-denise-levertov\/13855\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":18035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[4689,10916,10915,17918,10918,10917,278,9203],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-christianity","tag-dana-greene","tag-denise-levertov","tag-jewish","tag-martin-buber","tag-national-portrait-gallery","tag-poetry","tag-smithsonian","topics-literature-and-the-arts","faith-jewish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dana Greene on Poet Denise Levertov | November 21, 2012 | Religion &amp; 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