Motherlands by Weijia Pan

The Levis Reading Prize honors the memory of poet Larry Levis, who was a VCU faculty member at the time of his death in 1996. 

The prize is awarded annually for the best first or second book of poetry published in the previous calendar year. It is presented by the MFA in Creative Writing Program in the VCU Department of English and VCU Libraries with additional support from the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, and the family of Larry Levis.

Judges come from faculty of the VCU Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing Program.

Traditionally, the winner receives an honorarium and are invited, expenses paid, to Richmond to present a public reading in the following fall.

For more information on the Levis Reading Prize, as well as instructions for submissions, click here.