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Education

M.A., State University of New York Albany; Social History
M.F.A., Naropa Institute; Writing and Poetics

Biography

Rachel LevitskyÂ’s first full length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics.

Levitsky is also the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999) and 2(1×1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998) and a series of poetry plays, three of which have been debuted. Most of her poetic works tend toward what is known as ‘the long poemÂ’ and she is currently writing a prose novella. Her work has been published in magazines such as The Reculse, Sentence, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City, The Hat, Skanky Possum, Lungfull! and in the anthology, 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology. In 2007 her work was translated into Icelandic for the anthology 131.839 Slög Med Bilum by Eiríkur Örn Nordahl. Online poetry and critical essays can be found on such sites as Narrativity, Duration Press, How2, and Web Conjunctions.