blackbird online journal Spring 2008  Vol. 7  No. 1

FEATURES

Levis Remembered
David Baker
Matt Donovan
Tomaž Šalamun
Carol Houck Smith
Charles Wright

ELEVENTH ANNUAL LEVIS READING PRIZE

A Reading by Matt Donovan

On September 18, 2008, the Department of English and the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University awarded the Eleventh Annual Levis Reading Prize to Matt Donovan for Vellum, his first book of poems. In the audio documentation that follows, VCU’s Terry Oggel, Gregory Donovan, and David Wojahn introduce the event; award recipient Matt Donovan reads poems from Vellum as well as unpublished work.