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Levis Remembered
Reading Loop Introduction & Table of Contents
Larry Levis
Elegy Ending in the Sound of a Skipping RopeTwo Poems: A Reading by Larry Levis
David Freed
Larry Levis
Portrait of L.L.
Studio SnapshotDavid St. John
From Elegy to TrapezeRoger Reeves
poems from King Me
Cross Country
In a Brief, Animated World: The Marriage of Anne of Denmark to
James of Scotland, 1589
Self-Portrait as Ernestine “Tiny” Davis
Romanticism (the Blue Keats)17th Annual Levis Reading Prize
The Anecdote as Antidote: Skipping Rope with Larry Levis
by Gregory Donovan
Introduction to Roger Reeves
by Kathleen Graber
A Reading by Roger Reeves
Q&A with Roger Reeves
Camille Dungy
Frequently Asked Questions: 1
Frequently Asked Questions: 2
Notes on What is Always With Us
Claudia Emerson
Bird Ephemera
Lacuna
A Partial Ledger: Dr. C.D. Bennett
Sharon Wang
Elegy Addressed (Atom Cloud, Hand)
Sara Quinn Rivara
Lake Ice
Road to Canaan
The Swan Girl
Ira Sukrungruang
A Conversation about Desire
Reema Rajbanshi
Ode on an Asian Dog
Raina Lauren Fields
Salvation, or Tupac is Alive in Jersey City, New Zealand
Beth Bachmann
afterlife
bright one
restriction
David Freed & Charles Wright
Prints & Poems
Joshua Poteat
Department of Aerial Photography
A Poetic Principles Reading: Paula Champa, Emilia Phillips,
and Joshua Poteat 
Spencer Hanvik
Regret Economies
Wolves Grovel at the Gate of a Fourteenth Century Hermitage
Michael McMahon
Cleopatra in the Club Car
Lindsay Tigue
Elevator
Millions
Mark Cox
Chutes and Ladders
Here
Spawning
The Storm-torn Edge of Heaven
Kyle Valenta
Get Up, You Abyss
Katie Cortese
The First Necessary Heartbreak
2014 Weinstein Poetry Prize Event
A Reading by Weinstein Prize Winners
with Claudia Emerson, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Ron Smith,
and Lisa Russ SpaarPanel Discussion
with Kelly Cherry, Henry Hart, Brian Henry, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan,
Donald E. Selby, Jr., Ron Smith, and David Wojahn
Patrick Lawler
Dear Bose-Einstein Condensate
Sarah Trudgeon
Drugstore Baby
My Pet Baby
The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus
David Hernandez
Parking FAQ
The Prophecies of B.B. Guthrie
Thirteen
The Universe
Ross Losapio
Hephaestus as Midwife
Holiness, Again
Tattooed
Laura Sobbott Ross
Paul’s Daughter
The Study of Tragedy
Aaron Apps
from Dear Herculine
Sarah Barber
Gender Studies
How to Survive
1914 Women in Film Suite 
Holmes’s The Hazards of Helen
Normand’s Mabel’s Blunder
Turner’s Daisy Doodad’s Dial
Ken Taylor
how to draw seven circles
winter landscape with newspaper & dog
William Kelley Woolfitt
My Father as Weather Formation
My Mother as Harp Seal, as Sacristan
Kate Rutledge Jaffe
Said Agatha
James Henry Knippen
Bedroom (In the Ear)
Ghalib
translated from the Urdu by M. Shahid Alam
[Inside the heart, love carps it lacks space.]
[One life, a thousand wishes, each to die for slowly.]
[You stopped just short of the highest note.]
[What will my friends do when all their gambits fail?]
Sonja Livingston
Klotilde’s Cake
World Without End
Mark MacNamara
Messages from the Dead
Taylor Altman
A Delicate Balance
Kyla Sterling
The Villain & the Helpless One
This Life with Bees
Margo Taft Stever
Idiot’s Guide to Counting
Graham Hillard
The Surrender of Breda
George David Clark
The Past a Sanctuary Staffed by Poltergeists
The Peace
Lindsay Bernal
An Early Nude by Rothko
Richard Carlyon
A Conversation with Richard Carlyon
Ross Losapio
Review | Scratching the Ghost, by Dexter Booth
Matthew Phipps
Review | The Arsonist’s Song Has Nothing to Do with Fire, by Allison Titus
Laura Van Prooyen
Review | Seam, by Tarfia Faizullah
John Ravenal
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