David K. Leff, Essayist, Poet, Lecturer

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 David K. Leff is an award winning essayist, Pushcart Prize nominated poet and former deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. He is a member of the Collinsville Historic District Commission and was chairman for about two decades.  David has been a Portrait Boy Scout merit badge counselor and was a volunteer firefighter for 26 years. He is the Canton, Connecticut poet laureate, deputy town historian, and the town meeting moderator.  In 2016 and 2017 he served as poet-in-residence for the New England National Scenic Trail (NET), the first ever such designation for any of the country's eleven such trails established by an act of Congress.

The author of a dozen books and editor of two, David has read his work, given book talks, and lectured on literary, historical and environmental topics throughout Connecticut and beyond.  He has served on the board of directors of the Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, and the Maple Syrup Producers Association of Connecticut.  He is a member of the board of trustees of Great Mountain Forest in Norfolk, Connecticut, a non-profit working forest and conservation education organization, and is on the Collections Steering Committee of the Connecticut Historical Society. David has served as the book review editor of Connecticut Woodlands, the quarterly magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association and is now the poetry editor. His papers are located at the Special Collections and University Archives, UMass/Amherst http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/?s=leff

Read David's full biography here.
Check out this profile of David by Eric Lehman that appeared in The Wayfarer: http://thewayfarer.homeboundpublications.com/a-wayfarer-david-k-leff/  

 

 

 

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  • New England Trail Poetry
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Recent Posts

  • More than Where to Go: Distinctive Road Signs
  • Paintbrush and Rifle (poem)
  • Tree Messages
  • Birdsong (poem)
  • In Praise of Cobbles
  • Emerald City Triptych: Cowardly Lion (poem)
  • Emerald City Triptych: Scarecrow (poem)
  • Miniature Magic in the Landscape
  • Roadside Grave
  • Landscape Forgeries

BOOKS             

Echoes from Walden

New England Nature

6a0115704f318e970b025d9b3a5498200c-piDoppleganger: A Memoir of Mirrored Selves

6a0115704f318e970b017615600b04970c-120wiThe Breach

6a0115704f318e970b017615600b04970c-120wiTerranexus

6a0115704f318e970b017615600b04970c-120wiCanoeing Maine's Legendary Allagash

6a0115704f318e970b017615600b04970c-120wiMaple Sugaring

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Finding the Last Hungry Heart

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Tinkers Damn

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Hidden in Plain Sight

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The Last
Undiscoverd Place

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Deep Travel

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The Price of Water

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Depth of Field

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