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IAWA-BOSTON Presents:

Deborah Leipziger & Mary Lou Buschi

Saturday, January 18, 2025, at I Am Books

124 Salem Street, Boston, MA

6-8 PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6; admission is free

Deborah Leipziger is an author, poet, and advisor on sustainability. Born in Brazil, Leipziger is the author of Story & Bone (Lily Poetry Review Books). Her poems have been published in nine countries and include Pangyrus, Salamander, Lily Poetry Review, Revista Cardenal and others. Her work appears in numerous anthologies, including Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems. She is the Founder of the Lexicon of Change, a web-based platform devoted to the words we need for ecological and social transformation.

Mary Lou Buschi (she/her) has three full length poetry collections. Her most recent, Blue Physics (Lily Poetry Review 2024) was a finalist for Contemporary Poetry in The International Book Awards. Paddock (LPR 2021) was nominated for The Four Quartets Prize through The Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals such as Ploughshares, Glacier, Willow Springs, The Laurel Review and Jet Fuel Review. 

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