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Levis Remembered
Reading Loop Introduction & Table of Contents
Larry Levis
Elegy With a Thimbleful of Water in a Cage1996 Handley Library Reading
Last known recording of Larry LevisSandra Lim
poems from The Wilderness
Certainty [Edward Taylor . . . ]
Certainty [Perhaps you can . . . ]
Garden Quarrel
Human Interest Story18th Annual Levis Reading Prize
with a reading by prize winner Sandra Lim; commentary by
John Ulmschneider, Gregory Donovan, & David Wojahn
Welcome & Introduction
by John Ulmschneider
The Self and the Soul
by Gregory Donovan
Introduction to Sandra Lim
by David Wojahn
A Reading by Sandra Lim
A Conversation with Sandra Lim
A Reading by Stephen Dunn and Barbara Hurd
Julialicia Case
Strangers in Houses
John Allman
GMOs
Jacob’s Limp
Selfie
Thrift Shop
Vernissage
Keith Ekiss
Not Far Underground
Keetje Kuipers
At the Arlee Pow-Wow with My Unborn Child
Getting the Baby to Sleep
Lisa Russ Spaar
Accidental
Two Weeks
The Wind Wears a
Red Leaf
Hal
Crowther
The Heaven of Animals
Talvikki Ansel
Somewhere in Space
(a poem in 10 parts)
John Fry
the wilderness rose as incense
I say arid and
the room says storm
Barbara Duffey
Coffey Still
Shelterbelt
Catherine Staples
Feeding the Hounds
Moon Blind
Sleeping
in the Good Bed
Austin Segrest
The Missouri Compromise
Yellowhammer
Hala Alyan
In the City of Fire
Retrieval
Kirun Kapur
The Bird Watchers
In the Rub’ al Khali
Motorcycles
Sea Anemone
Simone
Muench & Dean Rader
[How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder]
[Near dusk, near a path, near a brook]
[Shadow, you'll travel to what waits ahead]
Bruce Bond
Allegiance
Ventriloquist
Peter Makuck
Après le Déluge, or How to Return
Family
Music
Jim Redmond
Hard Water
Let There Be
John Bresland
Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera 
Jordan Rice
Epithalamion
Latent
Pre-Op
E.B. Paige
The Razor in the Apple
They May Only Go
Where They’re Bid
David Trinidad
Viciousness in the Kitchen
Louie
Jon A. Sanchez
translated from the Filipino by J.A. Del Prado
Love Story
Sue D.
Burton
All in All, Another Productive Day in the Thicket of
Disappointment
Somehow Myself Survived the
Night
The Woman Who Is to Be Sawn in Half
The Woman Who Is Sawn in Half Thinks about
Elephants: Marianne Moore
Feeding Them Bread at
the Circus & Houdini Who Made One Disappear
(& Was Not “Uncomfortably Popular” with Them as
Was Miss Moore)
Gary Dop
What Is It Like to Get Punched in the Face?
Luisa
Muradyan
A Beaver and His Pile of Wood
Firefly
Vera
Beneath the Floor
A Reading by Erin McGraw and Gregory Donovan
Carly
Joy Miller
Nightshift as a Waitress: When the Regular Arrives
Soul’s Colony
Wynn
Chapman
The War of the Ashes
Greg Brownderville
The Homemade Fireworks
Ruth Madievsky
Buttons
On Memory
Matthew Gavin Frank
Making Weight of the Okie Sirloin
Kiyomi Iwata
On Kiyomi Iwata’s From Volume to Line
Process Video: From Volume to Line
An Evolution (Commentary by Howard Risatti)
Gregory Kimbrell
1900 Gibbon Street
The Age of Miracles
The Succulent Flowers
Between the Something and the Nothing . . .
Editor’s Commentary on Kimbrell’s Form and Process
Nini Berndt
Considering the Girl, Hilda Dahlgren
Vanessa Couto Johnson
c(on)ta(in)er
o(vers)ight
Tess
Taylor
Harvest Fair
Last Hay
Kimberly Grey
How We Take Our Grief
Darren Morris
Fear of Stones and Air
Patty Paine
What Light Does
What You Sow
Dannye Romine
Powell
Confession
Snow
Tunnel of Green
Jacqueline Goldfinger
Slip/Shot
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | Big Cactus, by Sylvia Wilkinson
Ross Losapio
Review | Our House Was on Fire, by Laura Van
Prooyen
Susan Settlemyre Williams
Review | Spans: New and Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
1914 Time Capsule
A sampling of historic images, texts, and film footage
