LEVIS REMEMBERED

Reading Loop Introduction
In September 2010, Virginia Commonwealth University hosted a three–day conference celebrating the life and work of Larry Levis and culminating in the 13th Annual Levis Reading Prize award and reading.

Larry Levis
   Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex

 Peter Campion
       The Lions

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Nicky Beer
   The Inhuman Witness: Animals in the Poetry
   of Larry Levis

Peter Campion
   As if in the Sleep of the Other

Matt Donovan
   Unreality & Real Distress: Ekphrasis and Emotion in the Poems of Larry Levis

James Hoch
   Coming Through: The Intensity and Intimacy of Levis and Caravaggio

Anna Journey
   Seducing the Nymph from the Tree: Larry Levis, Metamorphosis, and Elegy

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David St. John
   A Reading by David St. John 

Philip Levine
   A Reading by Philip Levine 

Thirteenth Annual Levis Prize Reading 
   A poetry reading by Peter Campion introduced by L.T. Oggel, David Wojahn,
   and Gregory Donovan.

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Larry Levis: A Celebration Poster
    signed by conference presenters

David Freed
   Portrait

LarryLorca
   Boy in Video Arcade

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