Richard Levine is the author of Now in Contest, Selected Poems, Contiguous States, and five chapbooks, including A Tide of a Hundred Mountains, winner of the 2012 Bright Hill Chapbook Prize. An Advisory Editor of BigCityLit.com and co-editor of "Invasion of Ukraine 2022: Poems," he received the 2021 Connecticut Poetry Society Award. His poetry appears on the websites of American Life in Poetry, Poetry Foundation and the American Academy of Poets. A Vietnam veteran, his work is archived in LaSalle University's Special Collections Library.

Other poems by Richard Levine in Verse Daily:

Other poems on the web by Richard Levine:
Three poems
"In a Blue Wood"
"Names for Home"
"Bread"
"Spring Ephemerals"
"Believe This"
Four poems

Richard Levine's Website.

About Now in Contest:

"Richard Levine refuses to allow our violent culture to be a spectacle. He takes the risk of living it. Now in Contest is a book I will treasure and return to."
—D. Nurkse

"From 'the bellows of cows / barn-bred and lamenting their exile from the wild' to the slow 'intravenous drip' of time, from a 'morning image of flesh / and good fortune' to 'this heaven of quiet hope,' Richard Levine's poems range far and wide across a landscape that encompasses war and holocaust, class and race, inner city teaching and rural rejuvenation, love of nature and fear for its survival. Levine has a heart as big as the sky and the gift of words to convey it."
—W. D. Ehrhart

"From 'the bellows of cows / barn-bred and lamenting their exile from the wild' to the slow 'intravenous drip' of time, from a 'morning image of flesh / and good fortune' to 'this heaven of quiet hope,' Richard Levine's poems range far and wide across a landscape that encompasses war and holocaust, class and race, inner city teaching and rural rejuvenation, love of nature and fear for its survival. Levine has a heart as big as the sky and the gift of words to convey it."
—Bertha Rogers