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Practicing His Signature
Poem Written in My Grandmother’s Dress
Piano Fire
Stringed Instrument Collection
Relic
The Pickup’s
Darling
The Zoologist’s Daughter
Hypotactic
Children’s Books
Ambulando Solvitur
Ambulando Solvitur
Accompanying Instruments
Splinters
Phantasmagoria
My Husband’s Father
A word wakened by lips that perish
Time Spent
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
Ixta’s been climbed by the Puebla English
Objects, Permanence
Peaches
Fauré
Spring Inventory in a Wood Near Lund
Sonnet (1)
Lucky Star
Ghost Letter
Coast
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
Emerson’s Study
“A Correspondence with Margaret Gibson”
3Rs: A Sentimental Journey
Camel Hair Coat
Follow the Pen (随笔)
Conjure Song
Inconclusive
Requiem
Alviso
Flight Paths
Four Cardinals
Larry Levis in Syracuse
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
On Learning to Love the Sea
Paintings within Paintings
Seeing Through the Wren as a Lens
A Conversation with Artist and Author Joan Gaustad
Levis Remembered Reading Loop | Blackbird v20n2
Cinema Club, Kutztown State College, 1971
Plank
On Stillness
Breakable Jesus
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
Movies You Must See Before You Die
“Three Snapshots: 2013 Sewanee Writers’ Conference” Claudia Emerson Reading Loop
Everyone’s a Poet
Scar 21
Pärt
Tony Oursler and His Dummy Watchers Live On
Kubota Garden
April in Wiltshire
Japan, Autumn
More Fun . . .
Winter Stars
mind’s ear
mind’s eye
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
Mariana
Seedlings
Здесь хорошо, откуда ни начни
It's really nice around here
Участок
A Plot
Eleanor Remembers Her Soldier
Now That You're Nowhere
Museum
What is the layer
The Kite
Three Versions of an Underpass, Somewhere outside Houston
Snowmelt
You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
from Scholarship Boy, “Where Are You From?” by Larry I. Palmer
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop | Snapshots
Women in Tech
The Apple
Anthology: a collection of flowers
In Dreams, My Ancestors
Hitchhiking at Nineteen
Mid-February at Navy Pier
Between the Trees
Aftermath
Finding Other Uses On Earth
from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
Review by Chelsea Gillenwater | “The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa”
Blue Prints
Goodbye, Rosalita
Another Life in Public
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
The Forgotten Lutz
Latticework
Broth
Our Father Who Art Somewhere Now, We Hope
Old Haunts
Maldito Sea el Día
Cursed Be the Day
Limits of the Burning World
My Daughter Gets Her Wisdom Teeth Extracted
Maybe It Was Summer
I Dream I Meet Irene McKinney at the Ruined House of the Photographer
School Bus Brocade
from “You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival” by Wesley Gibson
Letters to Genevieve
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop | Introduction & Table of Contents
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop | Snapshots
Thomas B. Gay
Against Memory
Portrait of The Alcoholic with Invader and Housefly
Flophouse
Rethinking the Burning of Books
Winter Stars
The Seal
Confiscation
Remembering George Garrett
Winging It
Would You Believe It?
Swooping through Broken Windows
In Trevi, One Town Over from Spoleto on the Train
Crocus
Jet Lag
Sixty-One
Searching This City’s Thrift Stores for Mirrors
Review | Cherokee Road Kill by Celia Bland
Annunciation
Thomas B. Gay
“Tribute to Dave Smith”
Memory and Language
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: II
Sing
Poem after the Equinox, 2015
While Falling to Sleep
The Machine's Guide to Grief
Love Is a Wound that Will Happen
from "Like Nebraska" by Sophie Klahr
Icarus in the House of Spirits
Fukushima Winter
Spell to Reverse Loss of Memories
My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol
Memory of Museum of Memory
How to Remember
[Важким кам’яним вугіллям в корінні лісів], СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)
Year’s Middle
Review | The Worlds We Think We Know, by Dalia Rosenfield
Manuscript: "In 1967" by Larry Levis
Levis Remembered
Cooper’s Hawk
Twist-O-Flex
A Coward for a Daughter
October Chorus
Seasons Change Before We’re Ready
Letter 14
Letter 15
Letter 5
Bard
Review | Cities I've Never Lived In by Sara Majka
Beyond Grief
Review | Overpour by Jane Wong
“Introduction to Remember” a one-act play by Liz Appel
Remember
“Introductions Reading Loop”
Thomas B. Gay
Different Lyrics, Same Melody
Blindly Threading the Needle
Transport
Katie Myers
Sally’s Daughter, a Young Poet, Explores the Idea of Dad
The Portal of the Years
Roommates, 1969
Writing an Elegy
Poem Ending with a Hotel on Fire
Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It
A foolish moon in a foolish sky
The Darkroom
Going Places
Cruising Altitude
The Cardinal
All the Grand Deaths
Since Last We Spoke
Bright White Blur
AWP Panel, The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems of Larry Levis
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
Before It Gets Dark
Dream Catalogue
So war das
That's How It Was
Ghost-Road
La biblioteca
The Library
Annunciation, 1960
Anderson House 212
The Little Lion, Novelist’s Notes by Nancy Wright Beasley
Thomas B. Gay
Thrift Shop
[If you count the catalogue of cats]
Not Far Underground
Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage 1
Certainty [Perhaps you can . . . ]
On Memory
Firefly
Vera Beneath the Floor
What You Sow
Tunnel of Green
Hard Water
Sleeping in the Good Bed
1996 Handley Library Reading
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
The Oldest Story
From Which the Method of Drawing in Space between the Trees Instead of the Trees Themselves Might Well Be Employed
Jean Valentine Was Here
Yesterday a House, Today Nothing
When You Get Out of Prison
Schoolboy’s Blues
Poem on My 60th Birthday
Equal, Always Equal, to the Inexpressible
Almanac of What’s Real
Waiting for the Diverted Trolley at 40th & Market St.
cam·pa·nol·o·gy
Brief Song of the Almost-Lost
Echo
Heaven
Ambien Oatmeal
Things on Purpose
Sister
Thomas B. Gay
Messages from the Dead
A Delicate Balance
The Past a Sanctuary Staffed by Poltergeists
Chutes and Ladders
Here
Said Agatha
Elegy Ending in the Sound of a Skipping Rope
Blowout
Klotilde’s Cake
World without End
A Conversation about Desire
Larry Levis
Portrait of L.L.
Studio Snapshot
“Two Poems: A Reading by Larry Levis”
The Anecdote as Antidote: Skipping Rope with Larry Levis
17th Annual Levis Reading Prize
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
“Familiar Scars vs. Original Intent: A Photo Restoration Case,” BirdLab
From Elegy to Trapeze
My Friend Who Climbed into a Sentence
Sheets of Galaxies
The Fortunate
Circle in the Grass
In Memoriam
En memoriam
Ice
Dream of the Morning Before It Split Open
Negative Peeled Back from a Cardboard Album
Voice of a Silhouette
Of Hardship
Angel of Becoming
Landscape and Departure
Review | Its Ghostly Workshop, by Ron Smith
Camelot, after Fifty Years: Remembering Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Hourglass I
Hourglass II
Thomas B. Gay
Found Objects
Eleanor Writes She’s Reading Rimbaud
In The Show We’ve Been Watching The Unloved Beautiful
Aubade: Homesong
Alphabet of Barbed Wire
[The shutters close slowly in the camera]
[In London, 1973, watching Ultimo Tango a Parigi]
[Because the queue was far longer for the question]
[After we found the sack of tchotchkes in the garage]
The Cow
Reasons for Staying
My Head a Pine Cabinet with Female Cardinal Ascending
Little Invocation
Memory
ხსოვნა
Ritual with Seven Selves
Landscape: stages
Portraits of a Former Lover
II. To Have & To Hold
Peter Taylor: The Basement Tapes
Self-Portrait as a List from ‘My Favorite Mistakes’
Wayside Writers Reading Loop Introduction
Broken Cup by Margaret Gibson
A Wayward Cow's Worst Nightmare
One Year After My Move to California, I Jell-O Wrestle My Texan Past in a Dream
Statuary
Schoolhouse
The Pages
Dark
Egrets
I’m Working on this Synecdoche
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
Long Spoons
Sarcophagus
Some Dead Magic
A Coin-Operated Paramour and a Half
Coin-Operated Rattle Without a Snake
Peeling
Sphex
The Doctors Say It’s Tinnitus
Wife
Postcard of Peter Lorre Embracing Lotte Lenya, 1929
Communication
As A Writer, All Bets Were Off: A Eulogy for Eleanor Ross Taylor
Fifteen Poems and Drafts
A Scene Not Made
In Harmony
Review | Feral, by Patty Paine
Thomas B. Gay
Review | If You Have Ghosts, by John Pursley III
Review | What Is Owed the Dead, by R.H.W. Dillard
Larry Levis in Hawaiian Shirt, Blackbird
Levis at Laurel and China II & Street Art, Blackbird
Levis Remembered Reading Loop, Blackbird
Dumb Noise
Pillbox
IV. from Ampersand Revisited
V. from Ampersand Revisited
if an inner landscape
Pastoral with Dog and Frank O’Hara
The Lovely Theresa
Nightbook Page, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Like Being a Child, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Again
Butter
Purged History of
Ephemera
Between
At Hald Hovedgaard Estate-1885
Finding Ray’s Sausage in East Cleveland on Google Earth
She Gets Drunk and Talks Too Much at Her 20th Reunion
That Was All I Ever Knew of Nepal
Bourbon in a Cup
Skating Waitress at the Circle Drive-in
Nattboksblad
Som Att Vara Barn
Black Ice
A Reading by Philip Levine, Blackbird, Blackbird
Break
The Lions
from Notes du ravin
In My Father’s Father’s Airstream Trailer
from Notes from the Ravine, Philippe Jaccottet | translation by John Taylor
Ochre xxv
Review of Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts, by Amy Unsworth
from The Fallen | Rooftops
A Reading by Philip Levine, Blackbird
Larry Levis: A Celebration Conference Poster
A Reading David St. John, Blackbird
from Finding My Father
For the Record
Meditation at Main Brook
A Distance
When All the Words Were Grass
A Steady Surprise of Stars
Moving Day
The Conservation of Memory
The Dead Man, 1958
: before the armenian church :
Now Downward, Airin Miller
Outdoor Room
Why to Bury a Parrot
As I Remember It
The Monkey Whose Job It Used to Be to Sit on Miss Peach’s Shoulder Takes Up Olde Timely Music
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
Perennial
Mysteries of Memory
Contemplating Jailbreak: Reflections on the Career of Eleanor Ross Taylor
Larry Levis Remembered, Blackbird
Larry Levis Remembered, Blackbird
Levis Remembered Reading Loop Introduction , Blackbird
Levis Remembered, Blackbird
We're at a Party
Moth, Horse, Accident, Skin
Tales from the Dark Hotel
Clockwork Erotica: Why He Takes Off His Glasses When Telekinesis Fails
Elegy: I Pass by the Erotic Bakery
He Has Given His Face to the Waters of the Lake
The Mirror's Lake Is Forever
Spencerian Hand
Inheritance
what is it darling, that draws you to me? it's probably insipid
View from the Headlands
If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them
Threshing
A Reading by Claudia Emerson
Thomas B. Gay
Found
Vietnam
Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand
The Visit | A translation of Iman Mersal by Khaled Mattawa
Being Bird-Blooded
Flashes
Larry Levis Visits Easton, PA During a November Freeze
Reconcile
Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas
How to Lure a Lizard into a Bird Feeder
Review of Eden in the Rearview Mirror by Susan Elbe
Strange Days: Zbigniew Herbert in Los Angeles
Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 3
Review of Just Breathe Normally by Peggy Shumaker
Review of A Murmuration of Starlings by Jake Adam York
Levis Remembered Found Portraits, Blackbird
A Reading by Matt Donovan, Blackbird
A Reading by Matt Donovan, Blackbird
A Reading by Matt Donovan, Blackbird
Larry Levis Remembered, Blackbird
Larry Levis Remembered Reading Loop Introduction, Blackbird
A Reading by Gerald Stern, Blackbird
Thanksgiving
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court Part Two
White Cat and Notebook: A Still Life
What Was Left
The Lions
How Do You Say?
Like My Friend
In Another Country
Nocturne with Choreography for Departure
The Window
Mercury
Messina
Slipknot: Starlight
Red-headed Blueswoman
Lynda Hull's "Orinthology," Mark Doty
A Conversation with Mary Gordon
A Conversation with Mary Gordon
Lynda Hull Remembered, Gregory Donovan
To Become Music or Break
Peter Taylor Remembered, Mary Flinn
Being Shades Ourselves
Chicago: A Commonplace Novel, Amey Miller
Sanctificum
Pima Road Notebook (I)
Pima Road Notebook (II)
Problems with Windows
September
Winter Stars
The Old House With Thee
The Present
Condor
Southbound
Review of case sensitive by Kate Greenstreet
Introduction: Three Sopranos, Susan S. Williams & Mary Lee Allen
Larry Levis Remembered | Larry Levis at Laurel and China
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Three Missives
Nebraska
J’ai fait la magique étude du bonheur
Escape from the Chengsin Mission
Interrogation
The Queen of Hearts
Camille Zakharia | Elusive Homelands—The Prelude
Wakulla Springs
Eden in the Rearview Mirror
Traumerei
Reunion
Levis Remembered: Larry Levis, Poet
Levis Remembered: Larry Levis, Poet
Reading Andrew Marvell
Renters
Visions
East Window, Moon
Paper
Caretaker
This Is Not an Elegy
Tiresias
Night Bath, Sagittarius
Horses Remember How
Crows
Review | Green Stars, by Charlotte Hilary Matthews
Red Guitar No. 2: Larkin’s Eggs
Red Guitar No. 2: Larkin's Eggs
The Bridge
How Beautiful Thy Feet With Shoes
Mother
My Father and the Quail
In 1967
Rothko’s Earth and Green, 1955
The Carriage Road
Memory of What I Should Regret
In the Yeats Class, Summer Term
Larry Levis | Notebook Sketches
Blackbird Feature, Eighth Annual Levis Prize Reading, November 15, 2005
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
right now i remember the old
The Cicadas
Landscape Returning
Return to Sibiu
Alan Shapiro, Blackbird
Things That Cannot Be Compared (Dissonance I)
The Bird Cards
Swallows
Seven-Star Bird
Cinnamon Dreams
Talk
Poem Ending With a Hotel on Fire
Two Poems by Larry Levis
The Gazing Eye Falls through the World
Regrets Only, Not Much
Alzheimer's
Diary
Rope, String, Thread
Your World
The Feeder, 10
Review | Birthmark, by Jon Pineda
To Recover the Poet: Larry Levis's Elegy, The Selected Levis, and The Gazer Within
Blackbird Feature, Seventh Annual Levis Prize Reading, November 15, 2004
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Dried Preparation of the Hand
Shifting the Burden
Tearing Down the Old Water Tower
Joyride
Inland Sea
The Plunder House
The Old King
Review | You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival, by Wesley Gibson
From White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation
Memory & Memoir, Blackbird
Buggy Ride from Salt
Cortland, 1970
Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves into the Shape of Our Extravagant Past
Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage
The Space
Inside the Room
From Inside
From the Middle
New Year's Eve
May 30
Canticle for the Second Sunday in Lent
Larry Levis: Johnny Dominguez, A Letter
David Freed, Larry Levis: Drawings
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Susan Aizenberg, January 15, 2004
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Bocca
The Kidnapping
Lung
Dark Land of Desire
Reading Group Discussion Guide
Tubman's Rock
Hardheaded Weather
Pitching Horseshoes
Surface Hunting
Possessions
Necromancing
Slow Field of the Sky
Fahrenheit Meditation
Our Memory, the Shining Leaves (Waterford Fair Civil War Reenactment)
Noir
Review | Separate Escapes, by Corrinne Clegg Hales
Blackbird Feature, Susan Garrett, Review | Rescuing Patty Hearst, by Virginia Holman
Blackbird Feature, Virginia Holman, from Rescuing Patty Hearst
Legerdemain
Luna Moth
Critical Care
Disappeared: from a photograph by Gustave LeGray
Postcard of the Dam the Mill Stood By
Drawing Lesson: Outline and Edge
Dedication
Spring Burials, Margot Schilpp
Happiness: The Aesthetics of Donald Justice
Bell's Tavern
Suite: Larry Levis
Larry Levis Remembered | Introduction
Dream House
Past Immaculate
Breakfasts with Joachim
The Potatoes, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson
Wound, Marilyn Nelson, Inge Pederson
Incident in the Sublime
Chestnut
Black Light (II)
Zuni Ring
Mencken and Me
Clockwork Prayer: Mise en Scène