annually in the name of the late Larry Levis for the best first or second book of poetry published in the previous calendar year. Essays and articles about Levis are featured each year in Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts published by VMU. In 2016, a documentary film on the life and poetry of Levis was released titled A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet. It was produced and directed by filmmaker Michele Poulos, and co-produced with her husband, poet Gregory Donovan. Says Donovan: Selected bibliography Poetry Wrecking Crew (1972) The Afterlife (1977) The Dollmaker's Ghost (1981) Winter Stars (1985) The Widening Spell of the Leaves (1991) Elegy (1997)The Selected Levis (2000)The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems (2016) ProseThe Gazer Within (2000) FictionBlack Freckles (1992) Further reading Buckley, Christopher. Condition of the Spirit - The Life and Work of Larry Levis. (Eastern Washington University, 2004) References External links Levis Remembered at Blackbird Magazine (links): Believing in words: the Larry Levis papers, online exhibit of archival materials, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries Devotion in the Age of Larry Levis, The Missouri Review. 2005 March 29. Friends of Dead Poets Society. Larry Levis’ latest (and possibly last) posthumous collection. The Smart Set''. 2016 January 21. 1946 births 1996 deaths Writers from Fresno, California University of Missouri faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Virginia Commonwealth University faculty 20th-century American poets People from Selma, California