Day 3 / Poem 3
Dead Boys I Have Known: Deadname / Joanna Grant Hoopoe, we made a nameFor you out of the notesOf your melodyWe made you a storyOf blood, of deathYoked you to…
Dead Boys I Have Known: Deadname / Joanna Grant Hoopoe, we made a nameFor you out of the notesOf your melodyWe made you a storyOf blood, of deathYoked you to…
Jeffrey is the author of three books of poetry: At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered (Salmon Press February 2019), Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize. His many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and the American Literary Review poetry prize. His poems have garnered 21 Pushcart nominations. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Levine is founder, Artistic Director, and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award‐winning independent literary press located in the historic NORAD Mill in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts.