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Levertov Award: Reading and Celebration with the Rt. Rev. Rowan Williams
April 6, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022, 7 P.M., in the cathedral nave. .
co-sponsored by Image Journal, Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, and Seattle Pacific University’s Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing program.
Image Journal, Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, and Seattle Pacific University’s Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing program are co-sponsors of this event, at which the 2022 Denise Levertov Award will be presented to Rowan Williams. The 104th archbishop of Canterbury (serving 2002–2012), Williams is a celebrated poet and playwright, distinguished theologian, and illuminating critic. He will present at the event and will read selections from his poetry. This event is free, but RSVP required to attend. It may also be joined via livestream.
A.N. Wilson has said that reading Williams’s poetry “is like feeling the first drops of rain after a long season of drought.” Frank Cottrell Boyce says of his plays: “Williams makes the stage an arena where he wrestles with the biggest ideas and makes them speak—and sing—our language.” Williams’s body of work embodies Image’s commitment to incarnational humanism, a vision for art that is vital to contemporary culture. The Christian tradition, Williams has observed, “helps to foster art which is intensely serious, unconsoling, and unafraid of the complexity of a world that the secularist too can recognize.”
The Levertov Award is given annually to an artist, musician, or writer whose work exemplifies a serious and sustained engagement with faith. Learn more at imagejournal.org/levertov.