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Jenny Xie
poems from Eye Level. winner of VCU’s
2019 Levis Reading Prize
Borderless
Ongoing
Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry SeasonEmilia Phillips
Review | Eye Level, by Jenny XieGregory Donovan
Caught: the Fish in Bishop, Dubie, and Larry Levis
Presented at VCU’s 2019 Levis Reading Prize Event
Dilruba Ahmed
When the Time Comes
Cyan James
Agnostic Wandering
Old Spice & Cordite
Joan Baranow
Anthology: a collection of flowers
From This Distance
Jason Grote
Playwright’s Notes
Director’s Commentary
by Seth Bockley
Artistic Director's Foreword
by Howard Shalwitz
Civilization (All You Can Eat)
Sumita Chakraborty
Arrow
Essay on the Order of Time
Hal Crowther
Darkness at Dawn: The Campus in Crisis
Darren Morris
On Learning That I Can No Longer See the Stars
Kristina Erny
Elijah and the Widow
Elijah Fed by Ravens
Introduction to 100 Refutations & A Conversation 
A Conversation with Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
100 Refutations Published Serially in The Brooklyn Rail
Ralph Angel
Untitled (Against the slope)
Untitled (the dream is crying)
Untitled (I stared at the glint)
Untitled (When time settles)
Jacqueline Balderrama
Canción de Cuna
Zero, 2018
J.D. Scrimgeour
Goodbye, Rosalita
Inge Pedersen
translated from Danish by Marilyn Nelson
The Apple
Sophia Parnok
translated from Russian by Rainie Oet
Cigarette after cigarette
Our Passion’s still carefree, still young
Julio Monteiro Martins
translated from Italian by Donald Stang & Helen Wickes
Coupling
Chelsea Gillenwater
Review | The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Norman Dubie
Not Before but After Us
Catie Rosemurgy
Diorama (the young soldier returning to duty)
Diorama (there is a love story)
Diorama (a moment with the doctor)
Diorama (trapper standing over a young woman in a blue dress)
Diorama (young woman lying on the ground in a blue dress)
Diorama (map legend)
Annie Woodford
And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men
Great Road
Brandie Gray
Review | Dolefully, a Rampart Stands by Paige Ackerson-Kiely
Rachel Neve-Midbar
Reading Bruno Schulz on Rosh Hashanah
Christopher Bakken
Exile in a Thrift-Store Landscape
Jessie van Eerden
Meet You at the Dollar General Across from the Family Dollar
A Conversation with Jessie van Eerden
Cherene Sherrard
The Turtle Cure
Maya Jewell Zeller
Benediction Remembering Sunrise and Fawn, with a Trip to the Planetarium
spell for their belly buttons/ with a dictionary clogging its wind pipe
Lope López de Miguel
The Olive
Alison Stine
Finding Other Uses On Earth
Adam Chiles
Hitchhiking at Nineteen
The Letter
Shadow
Anna Leigh Knowles
Aftermath
Escape Plans
On Lockdown
Diane D. Gillette
Walls: How to Raze a Girl
Michael Chitwood
First Loss
The Potato Eaters
Amber McBride
For Colored Kids Building Up Their Bones
Wesley Gibson
from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
Kathryn Haemmerle
Mid-February at Navy Pier
Peripheries
Ash Bowen
AM/FM
Birds and the Way They Understand Love
Going to Your Funeral in a Vee-Eight Ford
Ronda Piszk Broatch
Instead Of Death I Welcome The Stranger
In Dreams, My Ancestors
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
In the Museum of the Nineteenth Century, the Lights Are Coming On
The Literary Scholar
Pteridomaniac
Kathleen Winter
Bystanders
Killarney
Trespass
1918 Suite Part 3
Enough of Us Still and Brave Enough
William Bell
from A Scavenger in France
Sarah Layden
Nothing and Nobody
Erin Lambert Hartman
An Apology to Edgar Allan Poe
By You
Why I Left Academe for Massage Therapy
William Logan
Daumier, Man on a Rope
En Plein Air
Svetlana Turetskaya
A Soviet Painting by Nikolai Solomin, She Did Not Wait
Swan Lake with Dostoevsky
Ira Sadoff
Interior with Mickey Mantle
Self-Portrait with Michelangelo
Henry Israeli
Between the Trees
Pain Is Never Done
So Many Promises
Dennis Hinrichsen
[box of light with Keats in it] [& an iPhone] [& a boy]