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Levis Remembered
Reading Loop Introduction and Table of Contents
Nick Lantz
Amputation Transcript, a Redaction
Harry Harlow in the Pit of Despair
Lions Are Fed Donkeys in Baghdad Zoo: YouTube
“Of Dogges”
Waiting with the Donkey
“Whether the World be finite, and but one”
14th Annual Levis Reading Prize
A Reading by Nick Lantz
A Conversation with Nick Lantz
Gregory Kimbrell
Review | We Don't Know We Don't Know, by Nick LantzLarry Levis
Elegy with an Angel at its Gate
Four Facsimile Drafts
Levis at Laurel and China II & Street Art
Levis in Hawaiian Shirt
Tom Sleigh
How to Make a Toilet-Paper-Roll Blowgun: Alternatives to Akhmatova
in Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet, and Tomas Tranströmer
Poems in Sequence
Reading Loop Introduction and Table of Contents
Malachi Black
Sequence Introduction: A Note on “Quarantine”
Sext
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Nocturne
MatinsAdam Day
Sequence Introduction: Vicious Only When Necessary
Badger on the Whaler
Hothouse
Off to Work
On the Shrink’s CouchAnita Felicelli
Sequence Introduction: Words No Longer There
but I to you of a white goat (fragment 40)
the doorkeeper’s feet are seven armlengths long (fragment 110)
no more than the bird with piercing voice (fragment 30)
the one with violets in her lap (fragment 21)Rebecca Morgan Frank
Sequence Introduction: Close Quarters
Peccadillos
Santo Tomas
ShantyDouglas S. Jones
Sequence Introduction: Non-Destinations
Caught in a Conundrum of What He Knows about Food, Sexy
Questions His Nerves
Sexy Speaks to the ConductorMatthew Kaler
Sequence Introduction: Broken Saints
A Letter to the Midwife from the Boxer
The Lost Boxer
The Midwife’s Antimony
Matthew Little
Sequence Introduction: Invisible Remains
Translating Issa #4
Translating Issa #11
Translating Issa #32
Translating Issa #49Alessandra Lynch
Sequence Introduction: Telegramming
AGITATION: book of telegrams
AGITATION: conduct
AGITATION: reconciliationNadine Sabra Meyer
Sequence Introduction: Modest Interiors
Adoration
Woman and Child Blowing Bubbles
Woman Weighing GoldLisa Russ Spaar
Sequence Introduction: Offerings
St. Bed of Snow
St. Home
Martha Silano
An Interview with Sarah Vap
Sean Siobhan
Debts and Debtors: An Interview with R.H.W. Dillard
Randy Marshall
Review | What Is Owed the Dead, by R.H.W. Dillard
Jesmyn Ward
A Reading by Jesmyn Ward
David Roby
Unseen Character Suite: Introduction and Menu
Amy Beeder
Extinct
The Minor Characters As They Appear
Tetanus
John Ravenal
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
Hannah Wood
Science Experiment to Test the Durability of a Chemical Bond
Between Romeo and Juliet
Mark Jarman
Carver by the Sea
Fall Prayer
A Swan from Prague
Steven Glass & Howard Risatti
Art & Artifice
Jamaal May
Ask What I’ve Been
Man Matching Description
Joy Katz
His Sounds
The Imagination, Drunk with Prohibitions
Suicide Cascade
Charlie Clark
Gram Parsons
Listening to Sun Ra, Birds Convene Outside My Window
Bryn Chancellor
When Are You Coming Home?
Adrianne Harun
Two Girls Off Quarry Road
Elaine Neil Orr
Driving the Peugeot
Traci Brimhall
Our Lady of the Ruins
Sans Terre
To Poison the Lion
Sandra Beasley
Review | Rookery, by Traci Brimhall
Erica Dawson
Florida Funeral
Gave Proof
Langston Hughes’s Grandma Mary Writes a Love Letter to Lewis Leary
Years After He Dies Fighting at Harper’s Ferry
Erica Wright
In Defense of Ophidia
Diane Seuss
Either everything is sexual, or nothing is. Take this flock of poppies
I went downtown and went down
Katherine Conner
Panther Stalks Hinds County
Arlene Kim
Bird Call
Paper Suns
Bob Hicok
All my love poems are to her and everything and stupid
The big day
The missing
Once more into the breach of an unavoidably American argument
Practice makes imaginary backhands perfect
Keith Ekiss
Electronic News: Nagasaki
Explaining Shockley
Russian Winters
H.L. Spelman
Colonel Lindbergh Returns, 1948
On the Pennsylvania State Road Atlas
Still Life
Clifford Garstang
The Replacement Wife
Avery Beckendorf
Review | Mathilda Savitch, by Victor Lodato
Michaux Dempster
Review | In the Time of the Girls, by Anne Germanacos
Ross Losapio
Review | If You Have Ghosts, by John Pursley III
Emilia Phillips
Review | Wait, by Alison Stine
Robert Vivian
Review | Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast,
by Natasha Trethewey
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Review | Persons Unknown, by Jake Adam York and Pleasure, by Brian Teare