Mark Leidner presents ELEGY FOR PANGAEA
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Join us on Friday, September 18, in Remington to celebrate the release of Mark Leidner's new poetry collection, Elegy for Pangaea! Mark will be in conversation with Baltimore poet Don Berger.
About Elegy for Pangaea:
Mark Leidner’s third poetry collection, Elegy for Pangaea, is as funny, strange, and epic as his two previous collections, Returning the Sword to the Stone and Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me. His new poems explore faith, grief, money, myth, parenting, and poetry itself to create a collection as full of tantalizing ideas and dilemmas as “an enormous library with a waterbed floor.” As mystical as it is satirical, as audacious as it is personal, as hysterical as it is disconcerting, in Elegy for Pangaea, Leidner once again shows us that the only way out of irony is through.
Elegy for Pangaea will be available for purchase at the event.
Mark Leidner’s previous poetry collection, Returning the Sword to the Stone (Fonograf Editions, 2021) was named Best Poetry of 2021 by the New York Times. His story collection Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), was called “virtuosic” by the New York Times. He is also the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (poetry, Factory Hollow Press, 2011) and aphorism collection The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator/Two Dollar Radio, 2011). Mark wrote and produced the 2019 feature-length sci-fi thriller Empathy, Inc., which earned rave reviews in Variety, The AV Club, and The Verge and is available to stream on Prime Video. Mark is a graduate of the University of Georgia, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He grew up in Georgia and now lives in California. His website is markleidner.com.
Donald Berger is the author of The Rose of Maine, winner of the 2024 James Tate
International Poetry Prize, Pizza Necklace, The Long Time, winner of the Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers), Or Purchase a Star, and The Cream-Filled Muse. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany, his poems have appeared in journals in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has taught both in theCreative Writing Program at the University of Maryland and in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.
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