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Larry Levis
by David Freed
Blackbird, Fall 2003, v2n2 |
The VCU Department of English, its MFA Program in Creative Writing, and Blackbird: on online journal of literature and the arts, invite you to explore textual (and visual) work by, about, and inspired by Larry Levis.
We thank his sister, Sheila Brady, and his son, Nick Levis, for the continuing opportunity to recognize him through the Levis Reading Prize and in Blackbird.
Indexed below is Levis-related content in the Blackbird archives up to v8n1.
More recent—but not yet indexed—Levis content may be found in Blackbird v8n2.
By Larry Levis | Inspired by Larry Levis | Larry Levis Prize
By Larry Levis
Poetry:
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex 
Elegy with a Bridle in its Hand
Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage 
In 1967
In the City of Light
Los Dos Arboles
My Story in a Late Style of Fire
Poem Ending With a Hotel on Fire
Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank
The Space
Those Graves in Rome
The Two Trees
Winter Stars
Sketches:
Notebook Sketches
Essays:
Bell’s Tavern
Strange Days: Zbigniew Herbert in Los Angeles
Inspired by Levis
Poems:
Larry Levis Visits Easton, PA During a November Freeze, by Gerald Stern
Problems with Windows, by James Hoch
Sanctificum, selections, by Chris Abani
Essays:
Larry Levis in Syracuse, by Stephen Dunn
Larry Levis: Johnny Dominguez, a Letter, by Dave Smith
Larry Levis—The Poet and His Prose, by Christopher Buckley
Levis Here and There, by David Baker
Suite: Larry Levis, by Randy Marshall
To Recover the Poet: Larry Levis’s Elegy, The Selected Levis and
The Gazer Within, by Edward Byrne
The World as L. Found It: Larry Levis’s Elegy, reviewed by Tom Andrews
Interviews and Readings:
A Conversation with Philip Levine
A Reading by Gerald Stern
Portraits:
He Was my Friend, by anonymous
Drawings: Larry Levis, by David Freed
Larry Levis, Poet, by anonymous
Levis at Laurel and China, by anonymous
Winter, by anonymous
Levis Reading Prize
Poems by Winners:
Apparition of the Virgin, by Ron Slate
Charlie Chaplain Dug Up and Ransomed: A Prayer, by Matt Donovan
Coleridge in Scotland, Walking, by Matt Donovan
Courtland, 1970, by Susan Aizenberg
Florida Ghazals, by Spencer Reece
General Sweeney Dies at 84, by Ron Slate
Granite City, by Ron Slate
The Hayfield Chandelier, by Steve Scafidi
The Incentive of the Maggot, by Ron Slate
L’Heure Bleue, by Susan Aizenberg
Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves into the Shape of our Extravagant Past, by Susan Aizenberg
On the Occation of an Argument Beside the River Where I Live,
by Steve Scafidi
Paint, by David Daniel
Reunion, by Ron Slate
Saint Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives, by Matt Donovan
Seven-Star Bird, by David Daniel
The Sublime, by Steve Scafidi
Tchaikovsky at the Trinity Site: A Dance of Sorts in Three Acts,
by Matt Donovan
To One Lingering in the Trees, by Steve Scafidi
Towards the Sound of a Heron Stepping on Ice, by Matt Donovan
Uncle Emmet, Wiser Than God, by David Daniel
Vita Nuova, by Joshua Weiner
Weegee: Coney Island Beach After Midnight, by Joshua Weiner
Annual Readings:
Fifth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Steve Scafidi
Sixth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Susan Aizenberg
Seventh Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Daniel David
Eighth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Spencer Reece
Ninth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Ron Slate
Tenth Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Joshua Weiner
Eleventh Annual Levis Prize: A Reading by Matt Donovan
Conversations with Winners:
Fifth Annual Levis Prize: An Interview with Steve Scafidi
Sixth Annual Levis Prize: An Interview with Susan Aizenberg
Seventh Annual Levis Prize: An Interview with Daniel David
Eighth Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Spencer Reece
Ninth Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Ron Slate
Tenth Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Joshua Weiner
Eleventh Annual Levis Prize: A Conversation with Matt Donovan
Reviews of Winning Books:
Matthew Donovan’s Vellum, reviewed by David Roderick
Joshua Weiner’s From the Book of Giants, reviewed by Ron Slate
By Larry Levis | Inspired by Larry Levis | Larry Levis Prize |
