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Person Detail: Toni Mergentime Levi
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| Full Name: Toni Mergentime Levi | ||
| Biography: Toni Mergentime Levi is a poet and librettist. White Food, her new book of poems from Mayapple Press (2016), was preceded by two other full-length collections: Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems (Mayapple Press, 2009) and For A Dancing Bear (Three Mile Harbor, 1995). Her work has also appeared in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, Crosscurrents, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, California Quarterly and Apalachee Quarterly, as well as online (Poetry Daily), on radio (WBAI-FM) and in anthologies including two editions of The Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. Toni has been awarded residencies at VCCA, Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany), Konstepidemin (Sweden), MacDowell, Djerassi, Ucross, Millay and Saltonstall. Thanksgiving, one of two operas and several other collaborations with composer Paul Alan Levi, won a Grand Prize for New Opera from the National Music Theater Network. The opera has been performed at the American Music Theater Festival, Lincoln Center’s Newhouse Theatre, 42nd Street’s Theater Row (NYC) and other venues. In 2007, Venture, a collaboration with composer Charles Fussell premiered at the Tanglewood Music Center and will be released on a recording by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. A native New Yorker, Toni lives in Manhattan. |
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| Category: | N.Y.S. | |
| Travel Range: | Anywhere, with sufficient notice | |
| Transportation: | Bus, train or plane (depending on distance) | |
| Dates Available: | All seasons, all days | |
| Fees: | Negotiable but absolute minimum fee is $100 plus travel, lodging, and meals | |
| Contact Information: |
NY Email: tonimerg@earthlink.net Website (click here) |
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| Author's Timeline: | ||
| 1995 |
Suffolk County For A Dancing Bear (Pub: Three Mile Harbor ISBN: 1-886124-01-9) Collection of poetry, 64 pages |
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| 2009 |
(Unknown) County Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems (Pub: Mayapple Press ISBN: 978-0932412-83-6) Collection of poetry, 90 pages |
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| 2016 |
Ulster County White Food (Pub: Mayapple Press ISBN: 978-1-936419-65-4) Collection of poetry, 80 pages |
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