Prior Winners of the Levis Reading Prize
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Corey Van Landingham
Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (2023)


Devon Walker-Figueroa
Philomath (2022)


Leila Chatti
Deluge (2021)


Ilya Kaminsky
Deaf Republic (2020)


Jenny Xie
Eye Level (2019)


Kaveh Akbar
Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2018)


Solmaz Sharif
Look (2017)


Rickey Laurentiis
Boy with Thorn (2016)


Sandra Lim
The Wilderness (2015)


Roger Reeves
King Me (2014)


Michael McGriff
Home Burial (2013)


Katherine Larson
Radial Symmetry (2012)


Nick Lantz
We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (2011)


Peter Campion
The Lions (2010)


Katie Ford
Colosseum (2009)


Matthew Donovan
Vellum (2008)


Joshua Weiner
From the Book of Giants (2007)


Ron Slate
The Incentive of the Maggot (2006)


Spencer Reese
The Clerk’s Tale (2005)


David Daniel
Seven-Star Bird (2004)


Susan Aizenberg
Muse (2003)


Steve Scafidi
Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (2002)


Nick Flynn
Some Ether (2001)


Joel Brouwer
Exactly What Happened (2000)


Sandra Alcosser
Except by Nature (1999)


Belle Waring
Dark Blonde (1998)

