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Levis Remembered
Reading Loop Introduction & Table of Contents
Larry Levis
In 1967
Manuscript: In 1967
Solmaz Sharif
Drone
Force Visibilty
Mess Hall
A Conversation with Solmaz Sharif
20th Annual Levis Reading Prize
with a reading by prize winner Solmaz Sharif; commentary by John Ulmschneider, Gregory Donovan, and Emily Block.
Megan Blankenship
Hail Mary
Pew
Lisa Coffman
Poem after the Equinox, 2015
Why I Love the Fiddle
Peter Kline
Mirrorform: Shapeshifter
Mirrorform: The Living Dead
Mirrorform: Visionary
Miguel Murphy
Fukushima Winter
Hamlet
Jessica Franck
Annunciation
Eve as 16-Year-Old Girl Who Eats an Earthworm on a Dare
Eve as Girl with Snake Duty in 7th Grade Science
Laura Mccullough
Icarus in the House of Spirits
The Troubles of Men: Holometaboly
Raena Shirali
daayan, feet facing forward
the procession
Jennifer Givhan
Warn the Young Ones
Karrie Waarala
How to Remember
Memory of Museum of Memory
The Morning After
Catherine Pierce
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Delicatessen
From The Compendium of Romantic Words: Undone
Poem for the Speakeasy
Nicky Beer
Tapping the Glass: On Poems, Aquariums, and Form
Erica Dawson
Bone
Eve, clownin’ Adam
God asked me, like he asked Job, Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
Leah Falk
The Machine's Guide to Grief
Out and Back
Sara Turing’s Archive
States and Instructions for the Universal Machine
Norman Dubie
The Nine Solitary Plasters of a Comedy
That Century
Serhiy Zhadan
The Air We Breathed
Orange in a Schoolbag
Year’s Middle
Virginia Konchan
Helen Keller at the Rodeo
Ken Weitzman
Three Plays: Introduction & Table of Contents
Ed Falco
While Falling to Sleep
Peter Taylor
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court
Joy Priest
My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol
Spell to Reverse Loss of Memories
Fleda Brown
Sing
The Art of Composition
Lesley Wheeler
Pushing toward the Canopy
Susan Elbe
Loose Page Found Inside a Notebook
Of Time and North
Chloe Honum
Love Is a Wound that Will Happen
Stopping at a Gas Station on the Third Day of Driving Across the Country
MFA Alumni Reading 
Katy Resch George, Lea Marshall, Patricia A. Smith, and Audrey Walls
Sarah Maclay
The Glass Sonata
Soft Action
Ryo Yamaguchi
The Weeknight Showing
Jesse Hassenger
The Summer Birthdays
Hal Crowther
The Twilight of Truth?
A Conversation with Dorothy Allison
Sophie Klahr
From Like Nebraska
Joshua Robbins
Eschatology in Crayon Wax
LeRoy Henderson 
This is My Proof
Kelly Cherry
Dmitri in the Year of the October Revolution,
1917
1917 Suite
A Term, a Month, a Year of Liberty
Introduction and Table of Contents spanning two issues, including:
The Silent Sentinels and the Night of Terror (v17n1)
The NAACP’s Silent Parade (v16n2)
Alexandra Teague
Audrey Munson, The American Venus, Reimagines Her Life as Still Life
Baba Yaga Invites Fort Worth Girl Scout Troop #23 for a Campout
Pandora Opens USA Today, December 3, 2015, and Drafts an Editorial
A Reading by Mary Lou Hall & Hanna Pylväinen
Emily Block
Review | Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
Gabriel Boudali
Review | The Worlds We Think We Know by Dalia Rosenfield
Kelly Cherry
Review | Orexia: Poems by Lisa Russ Spaar
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
