Davi Walders: "Dr. Levi-Montalcini's Passion"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Davi Walders’ “Dr. Levi-Montalcini’s Passion,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue (Volume VII, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Davi Walders' poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals, including The American Scholar, Crab Orchard Review, JAMA, Potomac Review, Seneca Review, and Washington Woman, among others. Her poetry also has appeared in various anthologies, such as Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press), Visiting Frost (University of Iowa Press), Women, Philanthropy, and Social Change (University Press of New England), and Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers (Prentice Hall).

Walders developed and directs the Vital Signs Writing Project at NIH in Bethesda, MD, which was funded by The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, a Maryland State Artist Grant in Poetry, a Luce Foundation Grant, as well as fellowships to Ragdale Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has been choreographed for performance in New York City and elsewhere, and Garrison Keillor has read her poetry on Writer’s Almanac.

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