Mara Levine
Mara Levine has enjoyed a colorful career in theater, teaching, and leading creative communication seminars for the New York State Education Department. She became a psychotherapist, pursuing that second career on Long Island.
As Mara’s family were immigrants form Eastern Europe, much of her poetry embraces the struggles and endurance of diverse peoples challenging injustice and keeping the faith.
Her poetry was first published in the Anthology of New York Poets, edited by Mark Van Doren and Marianne Moore. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals including: The Light of City and Sea, an Anthology of Suffolk County Poetry; Performance Poets Association Literary Review, Contexts: Seventh Annual, Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society; Lilith; Corona, an Anthology published by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, and Riverside Poetry, an Anthology of New York Poets. She is also the winner of numerous poetry awards, and has published six volumes of poetry.
For many years Mara was a board member of the Long Island Poetry Collective, a co-editor of Xanadu, a nationally distributed poetry journal, and liaison to the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association.
She lives in New York City, where she is active in the poetry and arts community.
