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LEVIS, LARRY

By Larry Levis | Inspired by Larry Levis | Larry Levis Prize |


By Larry Levis

Poetry:
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex, v1n2   audio icon
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex, v3n2
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex, v9n2
Elegy with a Bridle in its Hand  audio icon
Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage  audio icon  video
In 1967  audio icon
In the City of Light
Linnets
My Story in a Late Style of Fire
Poem Ending With a Hotel on Fire  video
Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank  audio icon
The Space  audio icon
Those Graves in Rome
The Two Trees
Winter Stars  audio icon


Translations:
Los Dos Arboles | Larry Levis’s “The Two Trees” translated by
     Eugenia Muñoz


Gallery:
Notebook Sketches

Nonfiction:
Bell’s Tavern
Some Notes On The Gazer Within
Strange Days: Zbigniew Herbert in Los Angeles


Commentaries and Introductions:
Pivot Points | Three Generations of American Painters and Poets
Pivot Points | Exhibition Table
Pivot Points | Relationship Map: Poets
Pivot Points | The Poets: Introduction by Mary Flinn
Pivot Points | Talking with Both Hands by J. Randy Marshall


   
Inspired by Larry Levis

Poetry:
Sanctificum, selections, by Chris Abani
Problems with Windows, by James Hoch
Larry Levis Visits Easton, PA During a November Freeze, by Gerald Stern


Readings:
A Reading by Philip Levine, v9n2  audio
A Reading by David St. John  audio icon
A Reading by Gerald Stern  audio icon


Nonfiction:
The World as L. Found It: Larry Levis’s Elegy, reviewed by Tom Andrews
Levis Here and There, by David Baker
The Inhuman Witness: Animals in the Poetry of Larry Levis, by Nicky Beer
Larry Levis—The Poet and His Prose, by Christopher Buckley
To Recover the Poet: Larry Levis’s Elegy, The Selected Levis and The Gazer Within,
     by Edward Byrne
As if in the Sleep of the Other, by Peter Campion
Unreality & Real Distress: Ekphrasis and Emotion in the Poems of Larry Levis,
     by Matt Donovan
Larry Levis in Syracuse, by Stephen Dunn
Coming Through: The Intensity and Intimacy of Levis and Caravaggio,
     by James Hoch
Seducing the Nymph from the Tree: Larry Levis, Metamorphosis, and Elegy,
     by Anna Journey
Suite: Larry Levis, by Randy Marshall
Larry Levis: Johnny Dominguez, a Letter, by Dave Smith


Conversations and Interviews:
A Conversation with Philip Levine  audio icon

Gallery:
He Was my Friend, by anonymous
Larry Levis, Poet, by anonymous
Levis at Laurel and China, by anonymous
Winter, by anonymous
Found Levis: “There Are Two Worlds,” by Anne Browder
Drawings: Larry Levis, by David Freed


   
Larry Levis Reading Prize

Poems by Winners:
Cortland, 1970, by Susan Aizenberg  audio icon
L’Heure Bleue, by Susan Aizenberg  audio icon
Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves into the Shape of our Extravagant Past,
    by Susan Aizenberg  audio icon
Things That Cannot Be Compared (Dissonance I), by Susan Aizenberg
White Cat and Notebook: A Still Life, by Susan Aizenberg
1989: Death on the Nile, by Peter Campion
The Lions, by Peter Campion
September, by Peter Campion
Paint, by David Daniel  audio icon
Seven-Star Bird, by David Daniel  audio icon
Uncle Emmet, Wiser Than God, by David Daniel  audio icon
Charlie Chaplain Dug Up and Ransomed: A Prayer, by Matt Donovan  audio icon
Coleridge in Scotland, Walking, by Matt Donovan  audio icon
Saint Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives, by Matt Donovan  audio icon
Tchaikovsky at the Trinity Site: A Dance of Sorts in Three Acts, by Matt Donovan
Towards the Sound of a Heron Stepping on Ice, by Matt Donovan  audio icon
Beirut, by Katie Ford  audio icon
Easter Evening, by Katie Ford  audio icon
Little Goat, by Katie Ford  audio icon
Sighting, by Katie Ford  audio icon
The Singing, by Katie Ford  audio icon
Florida Ghazals, by Spencer Reece  audio icon
The Hayfield Chandelier, by Steve Scafidi
On the Occation of an Argument Beside the River Where I Live, by Steve Scafidi
The Sublime, by Steve Scafidi  audio icon
To One Lingering in the Trees, by Steve Scafidi  audio icon
Apparition of the Virgin, by Ron Slate  audio icon
General Sweeney Dies at 84, by Ron Slate
Granite City, by Ron Slate  audio icon
The Incentive of the Maggot, by Ron Slate  audio icon
Reunion, by Ron Slate
Vita Nuova, by Joshua Weiner
Weegee: Coney Island Beach After Midnight, by Joshua Weiner


Annual Readings:
Fifth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Steve Scafidi  audio icon
Sixth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Susan Aizenberg  audio icon
Seventh Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by David Daniel  audio icon
Eighth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Spencer Reece  audio icon
Ninth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Ron Slate  audio icon
Tenth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Joshua Weiner  audio icon
Eleventh Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Matt Donovan  audio icon
Twelfth Annual Levis Reading Prize: A Reading by Katie Ford  audio icon
Thirteenth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Peter Campion  audio icon


Conversations and Interviews with Winners:
Fifth Annual Levis Prize: An Interview with Steve Scafidi  audio icon
Sixth Annual Levis Prize: An Interview with Susan Aizenberg  audio icon
Seventh Annual Levis Prize: An Interview with Daniel David  audio icon
Eighth Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Spencer Reece  audio icon
Ninth Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Ron Slate  audio icon
Tenth Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Joshua Weiner  audio icon
Eleventh Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Matt Donovan  audio
Twelfth Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Katie Ford  audio icon


Reviews of Winning Books:
Peter Campion's The Lions, reviewed by Ron Slate
Matthew Donovan’s Vellum, reviewed by David Roderick
Katie Ford's Colosseum, reviewed by Shanley Jacobs
Joshua Weiner’s From the Book of Giants, reviewed by Ron Slate






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