Michael F. Lepore

Upon graduation from U of Maryland dental school in 1968, Lepore received a commission as a lieutenant in the US Navy Dental Corps and served two years active duty attached to Headquarters, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina,

Dr. Lepore is treasurer of the local Veterans’ Service Commission and past Paymaster of the Peter P. Monaco, Jr. Detachment of the Marine Corps League where, through his poetry, he helps to raise funds for the Marines Helping Marines, Wounded Marine Program. His poetry has been featured in New Dimensions, a publication of the American Association of Orthodontists, Tufts Dental Medicine, the magazine of the Tufts University Dental Alumni Association, and Caduceus, the Yale Medical Group Art Place. Lepore is the treasurer of the Connecticut Poetry Society and a member of the Hartford Chapter’s Second Sunday Poetry Workshop. Forgotten Heroes, Poems for and about Veterans of the Vietnam War and Vietnam Voices, published by Grayson Books are his first books.