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Portrait of Louisa Cobb Thompson by an Unidentified Chinese Artist
Essay Against Metaphor
Chagall’s ‘Song of Songs III’
Manuscript Epigraphs
Selections from ‘The Magic Life’
At the Prado
Zuihitsu of Los Angeles in Conversation with David Hockney
The End of the Life of Giorgione da Castelfranco, Venetian Painter
Portrait of Madame X
‘Bed’
‘The Eye Is the First Circle’
Recommendations & Reviews | by Blackbird Editors
Artificial Man
“George Ferrandi’s ‘fellow feelings’ by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
maybe the sun / we are each other’s atmosphere Suite, George Ferrandi et al.
we are each other’s atmosphere Audio Transcript
To Witness, Honor, and Play
Rob Barnard and Julian Stair: Inner Lives/Cinerary Jars
Oddfellows
The Junebugs
Artificial Bodies Reading Loop
Thomas B. Gay
Steve Scafidi Reading Loop
Phenomenological Thresholds of Art, Poetry, and Perception
Art Institute
Phantasmagoria
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset
Self-Portrait Using a Single Mirror
Self-Portrait Without a Mirror
Review by Colin Bailes | “Still Life” by Jay Hopler
Recommendations & Reviews | by Blackbird Editors
“R.U.R. Covers”
R.U.R.: “Inventing Roboti”
Portraits of Larry Levis
Josef Čapek
R.U.R. Producer’s Note
“A Correspondence with Brian Brodeur”
“A Correspondence with Leslie Adrienne Miller”
A Haunted Poem in a Haunted City
Photographer
Trace
Effacement
When Everything Is Nothing
‘How a Poem Happens’: Claudia Emerson
Recommendations & Reviews | by Blackbird Editors
Acknowledgements
Actionable Art: From Sam’s Café to United Art Contractors
Endnotes
Emerson’s Study
Revisiting ‘Stagecoach’
“A Conversation with Raven Leilani”
Thomas B. Gay
Wynwood Black
Four Corners
Pasolini
Sleeping Venus and Cupid Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion
Hope Wall RVA, 2020–21
Hope Wall Slide Show
Eleanor Rufty
Paintings within Paintings
Art School Studies
Cinema Club, Kutztown State College, 1971
On Stillness
Polychrome
Panoramas
Movies You Must See Before You Die
Carole Garmon
Sewing Bird: A Collaboration
Elizabeth King
Eleanor Rufty: The Moment Between Moments
Eleanor Rufty
“Eleanor Rufty: New and Selected Work”
Artist’s Statement
Voice-Over
Thomas B. Gay
What’s Essential About All This Stuff
Traveling Light: From Photography to Poetry
Francis Bacon Swallows the Head Whole,
Tony Oursler and His Dummy Watchers Live On
Diptych with Window View & Hiroshige Print
Japan, Autumn
“Merleau-Ponty by G.C. Waldrep
mind’s eye
‘The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Art in Locale&38217;
Endnotes
A Studio Glimpse: The Wilds
Smoke and Water
“Mountain Lake Triptych Introduction”
Mountain Lake and the Collaborative Spirit
‘Adoration of the Magi,’ ca. 1475
My Brother the Artist, at Seven
Death in the Reeds
At the Lepidopterist's House
Artist’s Talk
Artist’s Statement
Thomas B. Gay
Exile in a Thrift-Store Landscape
Pain Is Never Done
Daumier, ‘Man on a Rope’
Self-Portrait With Michelangelo
‘Swan Lake’ with Dostoevsky
A Soviet Paining by Nikolai Solomin ‘She Did Not Wait’
Review by Emilia Phillips | “Eye Level by Jenny Xie”
Director’s Commentary
Playwright’s Notes
Artistic Director’s Foreword
Another Life in Public
Caught: The Fish in Bishop, Dubie, and Larry Levis
New Ars Poetica
The Lost Art of Piping Down
Se Non è Vero, è Molto Ben Trovato
I Dream I Meet Irene McKinney at the Ruined House of the Photographer
Review by Christian Detisch | “Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky”
Review by Caitlin Etherton | “The Long Weeping: Portrait Essays by Jessie van Eerden”
Letters to Genevieve
Reading Claudia Emerson’s 'Eschatologies'
Strings
“Strings” Slideshow
Thomas B. Gay
Becoming Dorothy
Coming Home
Geisha Madrigal
Review | The Consequence of Moonlight, by Sofia Starne,
Body Swayed to Music: Levine among the Musicians
Remembering George Garrett
Dick Carlyon
Introduction & Table of Contents
A Network of Possibilities
Curating the Grand Hotel: The Spirit of Cinema in Richard Carlyon's Art
Selected Work From Reynolds Gallery
Director's Commentary
Playwright's Notes
Bois Gravés: An Artist’s Response to Loss
The Poetry of Jazz
David Jauss
“Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize Reading”
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal One
Virginia Woolf at Seventeen: The Warboys Journal Two
Sleeping Puppy and Hedgehog: Rembrandt and Dürer
A Note on the Art in the Oncologist’s Office
poli—
Breton in Mexico
Elegy for Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
Perhaps He Should Have Stayed in the City
Director’s Commentary
The Play as Transition
Cabell First Novelist Award 2017 | Panel Discussion
Cabell First Novelist Award 2017 | A Reading by Jade Chang
Gretchen Comba
Karen Solie
“Introductions Reading Loop”
Thomas B. Gay
Clint McCown
David Wojahn
“A Reading by Clint McCown & David Wojahn”
“Tribute to Dave Smith”
Tracking the Muse
Chasing Voices
Introducing Taylor’s “The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court”
Measure
The Art of Composition
The Nine Solitary Plasters of a Comedy
Mirrorform: Visionary
The Glass Sonata
Soft Action
Audrey Munson, The American Venus, Reimagines Her Life as Still Life
Serhiy Zhadan
Alan Zhukovski
Tapping the Glass: On Poems, Aquariums, and Form
“VMFA Artist Talk: LeRoy Henderson,” This Is My Proof
“Artist Profile: LeRoy Henderson," This Is My Proof
LeRoy Henderson
“This Is My Proof,” Introduction & Table of Contents, LeRoy Henderson
Manuscript: "In 1967" by Larry Levis
Nude in Front of the Garden
Three Plays: Introduction & Table of Contents by Ken Weitzman
Playwright’s Notes
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
“MFA Alumni Reading”
Mary Lou Hall
Hanna Pylväinen
“A Reading by Mary Lou Hall and Hanna Pylväinen”
Levis Remembered
Larry Levis ‘In 1967,’ or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-o?
20th Annual Levis Reading Prize
A Reading by Solmaz Sharif
Welcome & Introduction by John Ulmschneider
A Conversation with Solmaz Sharif
“A Reading by Colson Whitehead”
London Song
Schubert (with the volume turned up)
Kwik-n-Reddy™ Pastry Recipe for Poetry Golem
Claudia Emerson: Elegy After Elegy
Unequivocal Painting: The Watercolors of Javier Tapia
Elevating the Art: Claudia Emerson’s Treeshop
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop Introduction
“AWP Memorial Panel and Reading: Remembering Claudia Emerson”
“A Conversation with Angela Flournoy”
“Cabell First Novelist Award 2016”
“Cabell First Novelist Award 2016 Panel Discussion”
“Cabell First Novelist Award 2016”
“Introductions Reading Loop”
Thomas B. Gay
Gregory Kimbrell
Allison Titus
A Reading by Gregory Kimbrell and Allison Titus
Carrie Brown
Hiba Krisht
Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize Reading
The Best Library in the World
Tracking the Muse: Contributors on Process
Different Lyrics, Same Melody
Blindly Threading the Needle
Risky Business
The Stable Ambivalence
A Knowledge of Crisis
The Blank Page
The Reader
Environmental Impact Statement
Todd Fredson
Josué Guébo
Manifesto
The Darkroom
Absolute Rhythm
What Someone Was Supposed to Swing: Secularizing the Spiritual in Larry Levis’s The Darkening Trapeze
What I Learned in Grad School
Review | Constellarium, by Jordan Rice
T.R. Hummer: Visionary Imperfect
Review | Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
Likeness by David Caudle
Likeness by David Caudle
Likeness, Introduction and Table of Contents
Playwrights’ Notes
Fugitive Materials
It Felt Like I Knew You
Sarah Eckhardt
Gordon Parks
“Parks at Life: Works from VMFA’s Collection,” Gordon Parks
“Introduction to Parks at Life: Works from VMFA’s Collection,” Gordon Parks | Works from VMFA's Collection | Gordon Parks
A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet by Michele Poulos
Larry Levis
Michele Poulos
AWP Panel, The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems of Larry Levis
Anna Journey
David St. John
“A Reading by Anna Journey & David St. John”
“A Conversation with Rickey Laurentiis”
“A Reading by Rickey Laurentiis,” 19th Annual Levis Prize
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
Before It Gets Dark
19th Annual Levis Reading Prize
Welcome & Introduction
“A Reading by Dinty W. Moore”
Ai cântat frumos dar nu ți-ai schimbat viața
You Sang Beautifully but You Didn’t Change Your Life
Die Tänzerin
The Dancer
Nähstunde
Sewing Time
Composition 1
Composition 2
Epistle
A small (or large) machine
Ink-Stone Box
The Rebecca Portraits, Paul Strand, 1920-1932
Review | Count the Waves, by Sandra Beasley
Review | A Replacement Life, by Boris Fishman
Review | Thief in the Interior, by Phillip B. Williams
The Disappearing Threshold: Claudia Emerson and the Poetry of Mourning
Review | Quiet City, by Susan Aizenberg
“On Hearing That My Poems Were Being Studied in a Distant Place”: Thoughts on Distance, Difficulty, and Secret Addressees
“A Reading by Claudia Emerson”
Anderson House 212
The Little Lion, Artistic Director’s Notes by Tom Width
The Little Lion, Cast and Crew
“A Reading by Jimmy Santiago Baca”
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop
“Poetic Principles: An Evening with the Poetry of Claudia Emerson”
“A Reading by Contributor Name”
First Novelist Reading Loop Introduction
“Panel Discussion”
“A Reading by Boris Fishman”
“A Reading by Nick Flynn”
Introductions Reading Loop
Thomas B. Gay
“A Conversation with Jean Thompson”
“A Reading by Jean Thompson”
Tracking the Muse
Vernissage
[Edith Södergran, also holding the leash]
[“On foot”]
Ventriloquist
Certainty [Edward Taylor . . . ]
A Beaver and His Pile of Wood
Review | The Wilderness, by Sandra Lim
Review | Big Cactus, by Sylvia Wilkinson
“A Reading by Stephen Dunn & Barbara Hurd”
“A Reading by Jennifer Grotz”
The Self and the Soul
18th Annual Levis Reading Prize
1996 Handley Library Reading
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
“A Converstion with Sandra Lim”
“A Reading by Erin McGraw and Gregory Donovan”
“A Reading by Charles Wright”
Death Mask
He Thinks in Squares and Melted Grass
A Poet Came to Town
Failing Big: What Elizabeth Bishop Teaches Contemporary Poets about the Twofold “Never Again” of Emotion and Craft
First Novelist Reading Loop Introduction
“A Reading by T.R. Hummer”
Thomas B. Gay
“Poetic Principles: A Reading by Hal Crowther and Margaret Gibson”
“A Reading by Patricia Smith”
Lyric's Labor
Writing Through the Body
Tracking the Muse
Pathogen: Gestation of an Idea
Examination
The Starveling
An Early Nude by Rothko
Leda
Acknowledgements
Introduction to “Department of Aerial Photography” by Joshua Poteat
how to draw seven circles
Review | King Me, by Roger Reeves
Review | Scratching the Ghost, by Dexter L. Booth
Review | The Arsonist’s Song Has Nothing to Do with Fire, by Allison Titus
“A Conversation with Richard Carlyon, Part 1”
“A Conversation with Richard Carlyon, Part 2”
Introduction: A Conversation with Richard Carlyon
Videographer’s Notes
Larry Levis
Portrait of L.L.
Studio Snapshot
Acknowledgments | Prints & Poems
Drawings & Etchings of Charles Wright
Prints & Poems Introduction
Broadside of Two Poems
Proof & Variant of ‘An Ordinary Afternoon in Charlottesville’
“Two Poems: A Reading by Larry Levis”
“Visitations Cast & Crew”
Video Director’s Notes
Director’s Notes
Recent Acquisitions from the VMFA
Improvisations on David Freed
The Anecdote as Antidote: Skipping Rope with Larry Levis
17th Annual Levis Reading Prize
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
Introduction to Roger Reeves
“Launching an Open Process Initiative,” BirdLab Features & Blog
“Familiar Scars vs. Original Intent: A Photo Restoration Case,” BirdLab
“Poetic Principles: A Reading by Paula Champa, Emilia Phillips, and Joshua Poteat”
“Q&A with Roger Reeves”
“A Reading by Roger Reeves”
From Elegy to Trapeze
“2014 Weinstein Poetry Prize Panel Discussion”
2014 Weinstein Poetry Prize
2014 Weinstein Poetry Prize Reading
from Our Secret Life in the Movies
The Actress
Aria
Compositions
Angel of Becoming
The Death of Roland Barthes
Peter Sellers on The Muppet Show
KM4
A Different Kind of Telling
Review | Signaletics, by Emilia Phillips
Review | Its Ghostly Workshop, by Ron Smith
Chapbook Omnibus Review
Review | Note Pinned to the Back of a Dress , by Aubrey Lenahan
Review | Songs for the Carry-On, by Steve Scafidi
Review | Headwaters: Poems, by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Idiopathic Aura
Idiopathic Aura: Artist’s Introduction
Caroline Wright: On Tom Condon’s Idiopathic Aura
“Assembled Drawing” | The Prosthetics of Joy by George Ferrandi
Drawings, Prosthetics, Details, & Performers” | “The Prosthetics of Joy
The Prosthetics of Joy: Artist’s Introduction
“Making The Prosthetics of Joy,” George Ferrandi
“Performing The Prosthetics of Joy,” George Ferrandi
Stagecoach: The Animation
Introduction to Stagecoach: The Paintings
Stagecoach: The Paintings
Commentary on ‘Stagecoach: The Paintings’
Stagecoach: The Paintings
Robert Allerton Parker
Charles Sheeler
Paul Strand
Manhatta Suite Introduction
“Manhatta,” Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
The Art of the Camera: An Experimental ‘Movie’
“A Conversation with Ramona Ausubel”
First Novelist Reading Loop Introduction
“Cabell First Novelist Award Panel Discussion”
Thomas B. Gay
“A Conversation with Kevin Powers”
“A Conversation with Tom Sleigh”
Where Poems Come From
What is it about singing?
Dedication through Destruction: Thoughts on Writing Practice
The Poem as Balm
Tracking the Muse
Ordinary Eros
After and Before
Found Objects
Poetic Principles: A Reading by Charles Wright and Ellen Bryant Voigt
Abstraction
A Moral Color
Alphabet of the Peacock’s Eyes
[The shutters close slowly in the camera]
West
The Wine-Dark Sea (III)
Portrait Statue of Caligula
“A Conversation with Kristen Radtke”
The Ocularist
Archaic Archaic Torso of the Sun God Apollo as a Star Apple, an Oil Lamp, a Broken Mirror
Professor Slaughter’s Cell in the Land of Luz
“Las Meninas and Perro Semihundido” Tori Sharpe
Burtynsky’s Mines
Art 180
from The Serialist
From a Catalogue for a Colorist
At the Chinese Opera
Apparitions and Incarnations
Review | The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson
Review | Atlas Hour, by Carol Ann Davis
Hook
Brian Bouldrey
John Bresland
“VCU Sculpture: The Formative Years” introduced by Elizabeth King
A Rising of the Wind: Art from a Time of Rebellion in the Congo
Introduction: Visions from the Congo
Things Man Made: Allison Saar’s Untitled
Goddess of Love and Beauty: Renée Stout’s Erzulie Dreams
A Conversation with Brian Bouldrey and John Bresland
Thomas B. Gay
Poetry as Surpassed Nature
"Whether the World be finite, and but one"
Review | Rookery, by Traci Brimhall
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
Art & Artifice, Howard Risatti & Steven Glass
from Unseen Character, David Rob
from Unseen Character
Unseen Character Suite Introduction
Ceci N’est Pas . . .
A Sketch from 1844, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Portrait of a One-legged Hero
Sif Mons & the Messenger Birth Star
On the Road to Damascus
En Skiss Från 1844
Review of Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J.G. Heck’s Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science, by Joshua Poteat
from "Dear Sara Jane," Victor Lodato
Mother of Invention
Lost and Found Radio
Radon by Robyn Schiff & Nick Twemlow
Thomas B. Gay
Zero Hour, Blackbird
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex
To Contain
Acknowledgements
Ochre TOC
David Wojahn’s Introduction to "Ochre"
Ochre i
Ochre iii
Ochre vii
Ochre xix
Something of Us to Prove Our Afterlife: Notes on "Ochre", David Wojahn
The Inhuman Witness: Animals in the Poetry of Larry Levis
As if in the Sleep of the Other
Unreality & Real Distress: Ekphrasis and Emotion in the Poems of Larry Levis
Coming Through: The Intensity and Intimacy of Levis and Caravaggio
Seducing the Nymph from the Tree: Larry Levis, Metamorphosis, and Elegy
Introducing Richard Carlyon’s Postcards from Aix, Nancy Rufty Schandelmeier, Blackbird v9n2
Curators’ Commentary by Ashley Kistler and Carol Ann Lorenz
Photographs by Lalla Essaydi: L’Écriture Féminine / Le Corps Féminin
Messages in a Bottle: Notes of an Unlikely Curator
John Ravenal | Recently Acquired, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Fred Tomaselli's Woodpecker
Peter Campion | Larry Levis: A Celebration | 13th Annual Levis Reading Prize Reading
Larry Levis: A Celebration Conference Poster
After Lorca
Commentary and Acknowledgments
Campidoglio
hart crane after a heart-to-heart
Review of Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Review of Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
An ABC of Reading the Poems of Liana Quill
Review of The Last Four Things by Kate Greenstreet
Missteps
A Conversation with Jessica Lang
Introducing Jessica Lang & Lines Squared
Lines Squared
from Housepainters, Deb Olin Unferth & Scott Bateman
The Wren, Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane
Mangoes
On the Origin of the Video Essay
Blobsquatch: In the Expanded Field
Video Essay Suite | Blackbird Introduction
Notes on Liberty
Cast & Crew, Full Plate Collection Introduction
Director's Notes, Full Plate Collection Introduction
Irene Ziegler, Full Plate Collection Introduction
Playwright's Notes, Full Plate Collection Introduction
A Reading by Terrance Hayes
Thomas B. Gay
A Reading by Bret Lott
On Process—Writing a Short Story, Jocelyn Cullity
Silence, Reader, Melody S. Gee
Texture, Zachary Mason
Joanna Pearson, How to Rid Yourself of Poetry—Almost
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth
A Reading by Deb Olin Unferth
Imogen Cunningham’s “My Father At Sixty”
Laura Gilpin’s “Navajo Shepherd Boy”
Colony
“I”
Dark Ages
D Ghazal
Some Notes On The Gazer Within
Review of If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Anna Journey
Review of And So by Joel Brouwer
Review of The Lions by Peter Campion
Contemplating Jailbreak: Reflections on the Career of Eleanor Ross Taylor
Brainstrips
Alan Bigelow, Commentary on Brainstrips by Neal Wyatt
Introduction to Brainstrips: A Three-Part Knowledge Series
Brainstrips: A Note on Process
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
A Conversation with Katie Ford
A Conversation with Katie Ford
A Conversation with Travis Holland
A Conversation with Travis Holland
Twelfth Annual Levis Reading Prize, Introduction to A Reading by Katie Ford
Twelfth Annual Levis Reading Prize, A Reading by Katie Ford
Restoration Portrait
New Direction
Review of The History of Anonymity, by Jennifer Chang
Review of The Learners by Chip Kidd
Review of Flight: New and Selected Poems, by Linda Bierds
Tyranny of the Theoretical
Tyranny of the Theoretical (Freud)
Tyranny of the Theoretical Art)
Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #541
A Conversation with Chris Abani
A Reading and Conversation
Richard Carlyon Retrospective
Richard Carlyon RetrospectiveRetrospective Locations and Events
Poetic Principles: A Reading by Claudia Emerson
A Reading by Claudia Emerson
Thomas B. Gay
Platform: An Introduction to Meghan O’Rourke
Platform: An Introduction to Claudia Emerson
From Murderously To Mussel, Nicky Beer
The Soup and the Clouds, Kara Candito
What Is This?, Thomas Cooper
Because Everyone Needs A Little Thanatos, Anna Journey
Poetic Principles: A Reading by Meghan O’Rourke
Poetic Principles: A Reading by Meghan O’Rourke
A Reading by Jean Valentine
A Reading by Jean Valentine
Variation on a Landscape | After Hockney's Winter Tunnel
Variation on a Landscape | After Hockney's A Bigger Puddle
Coleridge in Scotland, Walking
Saint Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives
Tchaikovsky at the Trinity Site: A Dance of Sorts in Three Acts
Larry Levis—The Poet & His Prose
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 2, Catherine MacDonald
Introduction: Chapbook Omnibus Review
Review of Vellum by Matt Donovan, David Roderickl
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 1, Susan SettleMyre Williams
Levis Remembered Found Portraits, Blackbird
Nature, Culture, and Perception: Work by Tersita Fernández
Arts and Science, Act One
Arts and Science, Act Two
Arts and Science | Characters and Setting
Arts and Science, Introduction
Self-Representation in the Arabian Gulf, Blackbird
Self-Representation in the Arabian Gulf, Blackbird
White Cat and Notebook: A Still Life
Herman Melville’s Book of Four Sentences
Supermax
Eastwoodesque
Lawrence at the Etruscan Tombs
A Woman of Genius
The Lesson of the Master
The Achievement of George Garrett
Lynda Hull Remembered, Gregory Donovan
Lynda Hull
Lynda Hull Reading "The Window"
To Become Music or Break
Lynda Hull: The Poetry of Danger
Peter Taylor Remembered, Mary Flinn
Review of Michelangelo’s Seizure by Steve Gehrke, Susan S. Williams
Introduction: A Tribute to the Poetry of Lynda Hull
Three Parts Make a Hole
Monumental Sculpture by Sol LeWitt
Thomas B. Gay
Part of the Process, Sandra Beasley
Tracking The Muse
Chicago: A Commonplace Novel, Amey Miller
Ventriloquist on the Moor, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
20
In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Film Noir, Catherin Pierce
John's Christ
Vanishing Point
Weegee: Coney Island Beach After Midnight
Six Poems
A Conversation with Michael Collier
Introduction: A Conversation with Michael Collier
In Praise of Darkness: An Exchange
Review of From the Book of Giants by Josh Weiner
Review of Messenger by Ellen Voigt
A Conversation with Margrét Blöndal
Introduction: A Conversation with Margrét Blöndal
Gerald Donato | Beach, 1999
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1988(9)-90
Gerald Donato | Window, 1997
Gerald Donato | Untitled #7, 1976
Gerald Donato | Untitled (painter), 1990-91
Gerald Donato | Roofers, c. 1970s
Gerald Donato | Untitled (Mask), 1987
Gerald Donato | Couple, 1994
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1985
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1983-84
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1989
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1994
Gerald Donato | Four Door Model, 1994
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 2002-03
Gerald Donato | Untitled XXXX (Avon Series), 1984
Gerald Donato | Brooklyn, 1988
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1982
Gerald Donato | Look at it this way, 1985-86
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1987
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1985
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1985
Gerald Donato | Untitled XXVI (Avon Series), 1984
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1996
Gerald Donato | Mr. Man, c. 1980s
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 2002-03
Gerald Donato | Untitled (iron filings 1), 1975
Gerald Donato | Bowery Study XII, 1976
Gerald Donato | Untitled #16, 1976
Gerald Donato | Study #11,1976
Gerald Donato | Someday my prince will come, 1971
Gerald Donato | What's it all about, 1967
Gerald Donato | Unsquare Dance, 1967
Gerald Donato | Curtain, 1997-99
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1983
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1985
Gerald Donato | Untitled (Avon Series), 1984
Gerald Donato | Untitled, c. 1980s
Gerald Donato | Untitled, (Hello!), 1985
Gerald Donato | Untitled XXVIII (Avon Series), 1984
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1980-82
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1987
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1987
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1987
Gerald Donato | Untitled, 1987
Gerald Donato, Reinventing the Game
Gerald Donato | Curator's Introduction by Amy Moorefield
Gerald Donato | Against the Grain by Richard Roth
Gerald Donato | Wary Subjectivity by Stephen Westfall
Larry Levis Remembered | Larry Levis at Laurel and China
John Ravenal | Light-Based Art: Work by Finch and Navarro
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Joshua Weiner, A Conversation with Joshua Weiner
Joshua Weiner, A Conversation with Joshua Weiner
Tenth Annual Levis Prize Reading
Tenth Annual Levis Prize Reading
Tenth Annual Levis Prize Reading
Muse
Lemon Breast of the Virgin Mary
i lie back on my red coverlet and contemplate
Casa Dei Dioscuri
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
Robert D. Richardson, Biographer—Long Walks on the Wild Side
Kevin Hamilton | Department of Rhythmanalysis: On Location
Joshua Eckhardt | Kevin Hamilton, Professional Rhythmanalyst
Kevin Hamilton | Department of Rhythmanalysis
Kevin Hamilton | Department of Rhythmanalysis: On Location
Irene Perez | A Documentary Video
AJ Liberto | Acknowledgments
AJ Liberto | Critters
AJ Liberto | Critters
John Ravenal | Recently Acquired, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Kehinde Wiley's Willem van Heythuysen
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Jochen Sokoly
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Immigrants
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands
Thomas B. Gay
Ron Smith, Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor
An Interview with Camille Zakharia
An Interview with Camille Zakharia
Meanwhile Under the Shade Palms
The Lady Vanishes
Shigeo Kawashima, Ashley Kistler | Acknowledgments
Shigeo Kawashima, Ashley Kistler |From Beppu to Richmond: Shigeo Kawashima’s Story
Shigeo Kawashima, Michael Lease | Curve Video
Laura Lark | Aura
Laura Lark | Artist Statement
Laura Lark | 10 Really Short Videos
Tiny
John Ravenal | Recently Acquired, VMFA, Farhad Moshiri's S4M53
Blackbird Feature, Interview With Three Chapbook Authors
Levis Remembered: Larry Levis, Poet
Levis Remembered: Larry Levis, Poet
Blackbird, A Reading by Lee Smith
Blackbird, “Multiple Personality Disorder”: Speakers and Listeners in Lee Smith’s Novels
Fourth Annual VCU First Novelist Award Reading
Still Life with Dog
Afterword
Canto
Correlative
Ten Poems from What Is Owed the Dead
Visions
Ars Poetica
Spring Poem
Bela
Review | Green Stars, by Charlotte Hilary Matthews
A Conversation with Rodney Jones
Claudia Emerson: An Appreciation
In Memoriam: Richard Carlyon
Ben Jones | Acknowledgments
Benjamin S. Jones | Deployable Structures
Benjamin S. Jones | Deployable Structures
Benjamin S. Jones | Deployable Structures
Benjamin S. Jones | Deployable Structures
Benjamin S. Jones | Deployable Structures
KARINA PEISAJOVICH | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Introduction to The Straw Market, Henry Taylor
The Straw Market: A Comedy
Introductions: A Reading Loop, Blackbird
American Landscape Painting
My Father and the Quail
Ashes of Roses
From The Machine Gunner’s Letters
Caravaggio’s The Death of the Virgin
Ordinarily
Rothko’s Earth and Green, 1955
Selektion: The Painted Girl
The World as L. Found It
Red Guitar: Beyond Irony
Red Guitar, Introduction
Red Guitar
Review | First Hand, by Linda Bierds
Review | Circle, by Victoria Chang
“In All Them Time Henry Could Not Make Good”: Reintroducing John Berryman
Adaptation Syndrome | Painting in Contemporary Image Culture
Adaptation Syndrome | Painting in Contemporary Image Culture
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, I
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, II
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, III
Richard Carlyon | Selected Work
Richard Carlyon | Selected Work
Richard Carylon | Selected Work
Richard Carlyon | Selected Work
Richard Carylon | Selected Work
George Ferramdi | Superhero, Sidekick, Gaggle of Ghosts
George Ferrandi | Superhero, Sidekick, Gaggle of Ghosts
Garden Spot, U.S.A., Production Notes
Garden Spot, U.S.A., Act I
Garden Spot, U.S.A.
Larry Levis | Notebook Sketches
Larry Levis | Notebook Sketches
Larry Levis | Notebook Sketches
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Colorization
In the Canyons, Hidden Farms
A Glittering
Liliana Ursu, with Tess Gallagher and Adam J. Sorkin
Review | White Stucco Black Wing, by Karen Kevorkian
Review | Ursula, Under, by Ingrid Hill
Review | The World in Repair: Steve Gehrke's The Pyramids of Malpighi
Poetry in the World
An Interview with William Matthews, David Wojahn and James Harms
Sarah Bednarek | Banana Republic
Sarah Bednarek | Podium Gestures
Sarah Bednarek | Ideologues & Dictators
Sarah Bednarek | Guerrilla Palms
Sarah Bednarek | Patriot Series
Sarah Bednarek | Reclining Terrorists
Sarah Bednarek | Selected Work
Sarah Bednarek | Start
Sarah Bednarek | Comforting Word
Afterthoughts by the Director, volume of smoke
Director's Note, volume of smoke
Introduction, volume of smoke
Production Note, volume of smoke
volume of smoke
volume of smoke
Introductions: A Reading Loop, Blackbird
Swallows
Paint
Those Graves in Rome
Two Poems by Larry Levis
An Interview with Marjorie Agosín
To Recover the Poet: Larry Levis's Elegy, The Selected Levis, and The Gazer Within
A Conversation with Philip Levine
Review | Search Party: Collected Poems, by William Matthews
An Interview with William Matthews, David Wojahn and James Harms
Wendy Ewald | In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits
Wendy Ewald | In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits
Wendy Ewald | In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits
Space Interlude
Playbill for Space Interlude
Pivot Points
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Sally Bowring, February 1, 2005
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Blackbird Feature, Pivot Points Poetry Readings, March 1, 2005
Psalm with a Phrase from Beckett
East Coker, Kesler Woodward
Birch Portrait #62, Kesler Woodward
& Now
Review | What Narcisissm Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland
Review | Jetty & Other Poems, by Talvikki Ansel
Playbill for Turnaround and Overview
Turnaround
On Aspects of the Avant-garde
On Aspects of the Avant-garde
The Genie of the Station: John Newman's Skyrider
Disguise the Limits: Sculpture & Drawing by John Newman
Disguise the Limits
An Interview with Peter Schjeldahl
Blackbird Feature, Overview, by Patrick Cribben, July 15, 2004
Mason Mills, Blackbird
The Book of Crying Kanglings from The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake
Two Poems by Larry Levis
Canticle for the Second Sunday in Lent
Review | The Darker Fall, by Rick Barot
Tutelary Instruments
Larry Levis: Johnny Dominguez, A Letter
An Interview with Andrew Hudgins
Review | Fabulae, by Joy Katz
David Freed, Larry Levis: Drawings
Playbill for Key West
Dan O'Brien, Key West
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Blackbird Feature, Sixth Annual Levis Prize Reading, December 1, 2003
A Commission
Noir
Review | Separate Escapes, by Corrinne Clegg Hales
Review | Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
Going Out Into the Crazy
Review | V: Wave.Son.Nets/Losing L'Una, by Stephanie Strickland
Chris Burnside: A Retrospective
Under the F & G
Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art
Radically Local
Blackbird Feature, Oh Lucy, by Chris Burnside, September 16, 2003
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Cornelius Eady, August 1, 2003
David and Michael Beasley, Blackbird
Blackbird Feature, Sheila Pepe's Under the F & G, a Film by David and Michael Beasley, Blackbird
Blackbird Feature, Panel Discussion: The "Radically Local" in the Work of Sheila Pepe, August 15, 2003
Blackbird Feature, A Reading by Joshua Poteat, July 1, 2003
A Few Notes on Norman Dubie's The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, Cliff Edwards
Circumstantial
Noir Food
Disappeared: from a photograph by Gustave LeGray
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex
Drawing Lesson: Outline and Edge
Sienese Variations
The Sublime
Happiness: The Aesthetics of Donald Justice
Suite: Larry Levis
Review | My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Review | Pinion: An Elegy by Claudia Emerson
Myron Helfgott | Credits
Helfgott's Parade, Dinah Ryan
Myron Helfgott | Table of Works
Playbill for Monologues from Songs from Bedlam
The Self-Portrait Project
Artist's Statement
The Self-Portrait Project
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Lynn Emanuel, February 14, 2003
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Myron Helfgott, February 28, 2003
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Douglas Jones, March 14, 2003
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Blackbird Feature, Fifth Annual Levis Prize Reading, November 15, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Preview Vol. 2 No. 1, April 15, 2003
Miniature Man
Summer Birds and Flowers
Drifting Boat
Next Morning Letter
The Other Side
Canzone
Incident in the Sublime
Deliverance
Zuni Ring
Clockwork Prayer: Don Carlos and the Two Monks
Clockwork Prayer: Juanelo Turriano
Clockwork Prayer: The Attribution of the Monk
Clockwork Prayer: A Sixteenth-Century Mechanical Masterpiece
Clockwork Prayer: Looking at the Monk Now
Clockwork Prayer: Introduction
Clockwork Prayer: Introduction
Clockwork Prayer: Notes
Clockwork Prayer: Video
Flight Song, Introduction
Fugue
Playbill for Fugue
Blackbird Feature, Richard Carlyon, September 1, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Gregory Donovan, May 15, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Margaret Gibson, June 14, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Romulus Linney, August 15, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Sean Tubbs | Studio Virginia, October 16, 2002