Dana Levin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), which was a finalist for the Rilke Prize. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in Saint Louis.
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
Two Autumns, Saint Louis
Now do you know where you are? —C. D. Wright Calvary Cemetery Driving up Union to get there, all the yard signs saying, We Must Stop Killing Each Other— A […]
Poetry
Fall 2008
Zozo-ji
Buddhist temple, Tokyo One cry from a lone bird over a misted river is the expression of grief, in Japanese. Let women do what they need. And afterward knit a […]
Poetry
Winter 2004
Techno
I was tracking the stars through the open truck window, my friend speeding the roads through the black country— and I was thinking how the songs coming from the radio […]
Poetry
Winter 2004
The Washing
Everyone’s got their massacre site just around the corner.—Jim Landale, Hague Spokesman, Kosovo 1. In the mirror, open your mouth. Press down on your tongue and say Ahh. Ah. Red […]
Poetry
Winter 2004
Suttee
Cars oiling slowly through the rich grid of the Basin. White, red, the chaining hemoglobes, from the ridge you watched them, their shhh and wahhh wafting up through the canyon, […]
Fall 2008
Zozo-ji
Buddhist temple, Tokyo One cry from a lone bird over a misted river is the expression of grief, in Japanese. Let women do what they need. And afterward knit a […]
Winter 2011
Five Skull Diadem
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1 Because you believe in your skin, you must elect the knife. Peel the hair, the scalp-skin down. Bow to the fruit-bearing […]
Dana Levin
A Conversation with Dana Levin by KR Editor-At-Large G. C. Waldrep Transcript G. C. Waldrep: In her introduction to In the Surgical Theater, Louise Glück asserts that you write as […]