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Levis Remembered
Reading Loop Introduction & Table of Contents
Larry Levis
Elegy with Darkening Trapeze Inside It
Poem Ending with a Hotel on Fire
Manuscript: Poem Ending with a Hotel on FireMichele Poulos
Trailer | A Late Style of Fire
AWP Panel
The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems of Larry Levis
Matt Donovan
What Someone Was Supposed to Swing: Secularizing the Spiritual
in Larry Levis’s The Darkening Trapeze
Rickey Laurentiis
Lord and Chariot
Writing an Elegy
Mood for Love
Epitaph on a Stone
19th Annual Levis Reading Prize
with a reading by prize winner Rickey Laurentiis; commentary
by John Ulmschneider and Gregory Donovan
Keith S. Wilson
Review | Boy with Thorn, by Rickey Laurentiis
Betty Adcock
Transport
Word for the 21st Century
Tobias Wray
All the Grand Deaths
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Cruising Altitude
My English Teacher Tells Me
Andrew Kozma
Body Bags
Karen Greenlee
Manifesto
David Moolten
Instinctive Drowning Response
Scylla & Charybdis
G.C. Waldrep
The Abandoned Hour
The Lame Take the Prey
River Bytham
St. Winifred’s Well (2)
Susan Thornton
A Visit from the Bishop
David Wojahn
Absolute Rhythm
Canis Familiarus, 1969
Concerning Pan
Extinction Event: The Book of
Revelation, as Interpreted by Link Wray
Give
Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange
Give Me You
Sinatra: The
Concert at Pompeii, 1991
Josué Guébo
translated from the French by Todd Fredson
from Think of Lampedusa
Todd Fredson
The Most Dangerous Crossing: Reconstituting Nationality
in Josué Guébo’s Songe à Lampedusa
Javier Zamora
Since Last We Spoke
Randy Marshall
T.R. Hummer: Visionary Imperfect
Gordon Parks
Parks at Life: Works from VMFA’s Collection
Melissa Range
The Invalid Master and His Slave Take a Train from Macon
to Savannah, 1848
Noyes Academy, the Nation’s First Coeducational Integrated
School, Canaan,
New Hampshire, 1835
Jesse Goolsby
We Drag Our Feet near the Stingrays
Colin Cheney
Environmental Impact Statement
Post-Oil
Laura Da’
Curving of the Corn
Frontier Arithmetic
Athwominie
Auction of the Bonded
David Caudle
Likeness
a two-act play
Sofia Starnes
Last. Child. Last. Child.
Jenny Irish
Sally Isn’t Doing Well
Sally’s Daughter, a Young Poet, Explores the Idea of Dad
Pamela Gerhardt
Fog on the Cher
Darnell Arnoult
When I Started to Cry
Rodney Jones
Making Ready
Roommates, 1969
Staying in Cold Springs
The Portal of the Years
Fable
Chelsea Woodard
The Cardinal
Charis
Hypatia
Becky Hagenston
The Seven Ravens
Traci Brimhall
Self-Deliverance with a Line from George Herbert
Translation Theory
Janet McNally
Is there any proof that unicorns exist?
What is the most venomous animal?
Anne Barngrover
The one drag show in town is closing
Jaclyn Dwyer
When My Childless Friend Asks What the Birth Was Like
The Mermaid Who Wants to Play House Finds Only Wrecked
Ships to Live In
Beth Ann Fennelly
I Am in Trouble, and Need Assistance
Safety Scissors
What I Learned in Grad School
Michael Bazzett
The Blank Page
The Conversation Paused
The Reader
Sue William Silverman
If the Girl Refuses
Paul Pastorini
Bright White Blur
Anna Journey
Bluebeard’s Closet
William Logan
Bramble Lane
Sincerity
The Truth Dog
Terese Svoboda
A Thankful Scenario
Ron Smith
“A foolish moon in a foolish sky,”
Seven Deadly Sins
St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, Petersburg
David St. John
Going Places
The Darkroom
A Reading by David St. John & Anna Journey 
Margo Taft Stever
Supermarket in Autumn
Surfaces
Heather Altfeld
Planet of the Aged
George Ferrandi
Fugitive Materials
based on an artist’s talk with more than 170 images and 5 videos
TEDxVCU | I Felt Like I Knew You
Victoria C. Flanagan
Review | Constellarium, by Jordan Rice
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | A Series of Small Maneuvers, by Eliot Treichel
Matthew Phipps
Review | You May See a Stranger, by Paula Whyman
Laura Van Prooyen
Review | Grief & Other Animals, by Patty Paine
