Denise Levertov Plaque

Denise Levertov is one of the most accomplished poets ever to call Seattle home. She lived here for the last 8 years of her life and also was on the faculty of one of the Cascadia bioregion's most legendary poetry events, the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference. A huge body of work, poetry AND essays, some of which on poetics have been critical to post-WWII North American poetry, her correspondence with poets like William Carlos Williams and Robert Duncan, her brilliant teaching at Stanford and other institutions and her fierce anti-war stance are all part of why she deserves this recognition nearly 20 years after her death. Her poems about Mt. Rainier may be the best ever done of The Mountain, as we say here in Seattle. And people walk by the house she lived in for eight years with no idea of the brilliance that went on inside.

SPLAB is teaming up with the Rainier Valley Rotary to have a plaque created and installed and we need your support to ensure it happens.

• The plaque will be unveiled as part of the 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival, Nov 3-6, 2016 at Spring Street Center in Seattle: www.CascadiaPoetryFestival.org
• The festival this year honors the memory and legacy of Levertov with readings, a panel discussion and a ritual walk to Levertov's grave.
• All contributors will be recognized in the festival program.
• Contributors of more than $35 will get an all-access Gold Pass for entry into all this year's festival events.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you can't contribute, please help by:

• Getting the word out about this campaign and festival.
• Use the Indiegogo share tools!
• Consider attending the festival and the ritual walk to her grave.
• Subscribe to the blog at www.splab.org for information on this project and other poetry/bioregional news out of Cascadia.