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Advent of April
Suphil Lee Park
Selections from ‘The Magic Life’
Recommendations & Reviews | by Blackbird Editors
Fabio Pusterla
Will Schutt
Sympathetic Resonance
The Quietest Voice in the Room: On Robert Hayden
Oddfellows
The Junebugs
Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop
Introductions Reading Loop
Jesse Lee Kercheval Reading Loop
Corey Van Landingham Reading Loop
“Through the Window of Someone Like Me”
Steve Scafidi Reading Loop
“A Correspondence with Brian Brodeur”
Tracking the Muse
Invisible Mountains
Liminality, Place, and Poetry
The ‘Invisible’ Path
Splinters
The Voice of the Poem
The Death of Osip Mandelstam
Dong Li
Song Lin
Providence and Prophesy
Brian Henry
Tomaž Šalamun
Translator’s Note & Introduction
UMass
Larry Levis in Syracuse
Some Notes on the Gazer Within
Leila Chatti
Paula Bohince
Corrado Govoni
Negar Emrani
Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh
Claudia Emerson
Sewing Bird: A Collaboration
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop
“A Reading by Kiki Petrosino from ‘White Blood’”
Awake in Discomfort
Everyone’s a Poet
Marilyn Nelson
Kaveh Bassiri
Nima Yushij
Manuscipt Variations: ‘Winter Stars’
“23rd Annual Levis Reading Prize: a reading by prize winner Ilya Kaminsky”
Levis Remembered Reading Loop | Blackbird v19n2
“A Reading by Steve Scafidi”
“Remembering Eleanor Ross Taylor at One Hundred”
Marilyn Nelson
Mikhail Aizenberg
Nine Posthumous Poems
Patty Crane
Tomas Tranströmer
Review by Joy Katz | “Winter” by Sarah Vap
Anzhelina Polonskaya
The Deep Hold
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop | Introduction and Table of Contents
Marilyn Nelson
Julio Monteiro Martins
Helen Wickes
Rainie Oet
Sophia Parnok
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Another Life in Public
Katherine Mooney Brooks
Caught: The Fish in Bishop, Dubie, and Larry Levis
“A Conversation with Jenny Xie”
Levis Remembered Reading Loop
“A Reading by Ada Limón”
Brandie Gray
“A Reading by Charles Wright”
Ferocious Lullaby: Notes on Poetry and Parenting
Roselyn Elliott
Emilia Phillips
MFA Alumni Reading
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop | Introduction & Table of Contents
Lena Moses-Schmitt
Gregory Donovan
T.R. Hummer
Michele Poulos
“A Reading by Gregory Donovan, T.R. Hummer, & Michele Poulos”
Introductions Reading Loop
Review | The Consequence of Moonlight, by Sofia Starne,
Philip Levine
Mark Doty
Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
“A Reading by Mark Doty & Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas”
“A Reading by Kaveh Akbar”
Poetry under the Stars
21st Annual Levis Reading Prize
Welcome & Introduction
Levis Remembered
Kaveh Akbar
Review | Clinch River by Susan Hankla
Introduction to Claudia Emerson's Poems in Waxwing
Claudia Emerson Reading Loop | Introduction & Table of Contents
Larry Levis ‘In 1967,’ or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-o?
“A Reading by T.R. Hummer”
“Poetic Principles: A Reading by Hal Crowther and Margaret Gibson”
“A Reading by Patricia Smith”
“Poetic Principles: A Reading by Paula Champa, Emilia Phillips, and Joshua Poteat”
“A Reading by Roger Reeves”
“2014 Weinstein Poetry Prize Panel Discussion”
2014 Weinstein Poetry Prize
2014 Weinstein Poetry Prize Reading
Sermon on Form
A Note on ‘Quarantine’
Review | Rookery, by Traci Brimhall
Review | We Don't Know We Don't Know, by Nick Lantz
Review | If You Have Ghosts, by John Pursley III
Review | What Is Owed the Dead, by R.H.W. Dillard
Review | Wait, by Alison Stine
Debts and Debtors: An Interview with R.H.W. Dillard
How to Make a Toilet-Paper-Roll Blowgun: Alternatives to Akhmatova in Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet, and Tomas Tranströmer
Review | Persons Unknown, by Jake Adam York and Pleasure, by Brian Teare
A Conversation with Nick Lantz, Nick Lantz
IV. from Ampersand Revisited
April and Silence, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
Insecurity’s Kingdom, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane
April Och Tystnad
Osäkerhetens Rike
Letter to Tomas Tranströmer
Good Evening, Beautiful Deep: on The Sorrow Gondola
Review of Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems, by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Thomas B. Gay
Peter Campion | Larry Levis: A Celebration | 13th Annual Levis Reading Prize Reading
Review: Dummy Fire
Friday Night Fights in Florida: Contention From Wallace Stevens to Jay Hopler
Review: Five Terraces
Ellen Bryant Voigt, A Conversation With Ellen Bryant Voigt
Guns, Tea, and Eating Chicken, Kathy Davis
The Unreliable Prism, Adam Day
Introductions: A Reading Loop | Tracking The Muse
Ron Smith, Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor
Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor, Ron Smith
Red Guitar No. 3: The Only Emperor, Ron Smith
Ennui
An Introduction to Sylvia Plath's "Ennui"
Sylvia Plath | Ennui Typescript (Earlier Draft)
Sylvia Plath | Ennui Typescript (Final Draft)
Levis Here and There
Review: My Hand Upon Your Name
Review: Lie Awake Lake, by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Larry Levis in Syracuse
Review: Ornithologies, by Joshua Poteat
Chapbook Reviews II
Chapbook Reviews III
Chapbook Reviews I
So What's With All These Chapbook Reviews?, Susan Settlemyre William
Blackbird Feature, Chapbook Author Interview Bios
Blackbird Feature, Interview With Three Chapbook Authors
Ninth Annual Levis Prize Reading, Audio Transcript
Review | Green Stars, by Charlotte Hilary Matthews
A Conversation with Rodney Jones
Review | A Shot in the Canon’s Mouth: Catherine Wing’s Enter Invisible
Red Guitar No. 2: Larkin's Eggs
Review | Murder Ballads, by Jake Adam York