Larry Levis: Performing Artist in New York

About Larry Levis

Larry Levis was an American poet and teacher whose body of work includes five books published during his lifetime and additional volumes released after his death. His poems are known for their long lines, narrative drift, and sharp attention to memory and place. In New York City, his writing is often revisited in public readings, including tributes staged in Bryant Park that draw from both the established canon and the later poems. The work favors clarity of image over rhetorical display.