Dana Levin is the author of four poetry collections, Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016); Sky Burial (Copper Canyon, 2011), Wedding Day (Copper Canyon, 2005), and In the Surgical Theatre (Copper Canyon , 1999), which received the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, The John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares, the 2000 Wytter Bynner Prize from The American […]
You want to get in and then get out of the box. form breakage form — I was in the fish shop, wondering why being experimental means not having a point— why experimentation in form is sufficient […]
At the card store she chose the pictogram for ‘clarity’ over the pictogram for ‘joy.’ ― And the light said, Be mine. […]
Six monarch butterfly cocoons clinging to the back of your throat— you could feel their gold wings trembling. You were alarmed. You felt infested. In the downstairs bathroom of the family home, gagging to spit them out— […]
Dana Levin, whose new book is Wedding Day (2005, Copper Canyon Press), talks about the first poem she ever wrote.
Dana Levin discusses her poem Ars Poetica.