2026 Conference Schedule

The poetry of Larry Levis increasingly occupies a legendary place among poets, teachers, and readers. Over his career, his poetic lines broadened to accommodate the cinematic aperture of his observations on American empire, poverty, landscape, migrant workers, political violence, addiction, and art. Five contemporary poets will celebrate and read from Levis’s poetry to mark Levis’s eightieth year, thirty years since his death, and the long-awaited publication of his collected poems.