Levi Bentley is a poet. They are a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Fellow,  and 2017 Leeway Art and Change grantee. They live in Philadelphia where they design and co-edit Asterion Projects. They work with the literary organization Blue Stoop, co-founded the long running Housework reading series and edited the journal Boneless Skinless. They have released chapbooks through Lamehouse press, 89plus/LUMA Foundation, Damask Press, and Well Greased Press. Their poems have appeared in Apiary, Bedfellows, BlazeVOX,  Elective Affinities, Emerge: 2019 Lambda Anthology, Fact-Simile, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rupture, Stillwater Review, Toho, The Wanderer, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (forthcoming from Nightboat Books), and a variety of other venues. 

Their work listens to material conditions of queerness, precarity, and animacy through a multiplicity of mode, voice, and strategy.

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​levi at speakwright dot org

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