The new book — available now
Pay Attention, You're Alive
Reflecting on my experience of an evolving faith, divorce, grief, love and new beginnings, this book represents my attempts at marking trees along a terrain for which no map exists, and coming out the other side of those woods.
Pay Attention, You’re Alive is a collection of poetry and short essays written between 2021 and 2025.
Hi. I'm Levi.
You might know me as Levi The Poet — a spoken word artist, writer & performer. I play shows and tell stories to remind people (myself included) that they're not alone.
Also, I offer creative mentorship and courses to other artists, writers, and communities — to help them do what they do, and sustain the doing of it.
I also have a dog. His name is Frank.
I write words for humans.
Join other humans who read them, here.
A feature documentary by Alex Zarek
The First Ten Years: It's All Worth Living For
In 2020—one month before the world shut down—Chicago-born videographer Alex Zarek flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico to spend a week with me: documenting my work, interviewing my friends and family, and capturing the places that made Levi The Poet what it is.
I'm excited to share his finished, full-length work: It's All Worth Living For: The First 10 Years.
Substack: A Becoming
Support my creative work
Become a paid subscriber of A Becoming — my Substack publication — where I write poetry, essay, public-diary and personal reflection. It's a space for me to be raw and unedited, and I record each post for your listening pleasure.
