Rachel Levitsky

Rachel Levitsky is an experimental poet who works in prose and hybrid forms that have included novels, film scripts, plays and short and long form poetry. Levitsky has a long history of Social Practice, embodied in their robust work editing and promoting radical voices and convening collective engagement. During the early months of the Covid-19 quarantine, these manifested as the Simultaneous Collective Variously Ambulatory walks. An essay on these walks was published online at The Hopkins Review. Levitsky has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Villa Montalvo, LMCC, T.S.Elliot House among others. Levitsky is an active, founding member of  Belladonna* Collaborative, is person to a small dog, and hosts free meditation sessions online with poets, activists and friends.

B.A., State University of Albany; M.F.A. Poetics, Naropa University; M.A. American Social History, State University of New York at Albany.

Rachel Levitsky has published three poetry volumes, Under the Sun (Futurepoem), NEIGHBOR (Ugly Duckling), the novel The Story of My Accident Is Ours (Futurepoem), as well as over fifteen chapbooks, most recently the bi-lingual English/French Against Travel: Anti Voyage, out from Pamenar Press, a publisher that operates transnationally from London, Toronto and Tehran. Pamenar will publish Against, a full length volume, in 2026. Levitsky has written and produced several poetry plays, including Perfect California performed at the Ontological Hysteric Theater in 2006 and Under Water performed for 24 Hour Plays in 2002, both in New York City. Reduced Tuesday, a play she wrote with Camille Roy, was produced at the Poets Theater Jubilee in San Francisco in 2002. She has also appeared as characters such as Andy Warhol, Emma Goldman and Pseudo Voice in plays by Maxe Crandall, Bernadette Mayer and Carla Harryman.