Donald Levering’s most recent poetry book, Breaking Down Familiar, published by Main Street Rag Press, won the 2023 New Mexico Press Women Creative Verse Book Award. His previous books include Any Song Will Do (2019), Coltrane’s God (2015), and The Water Leveling with Us (2014), all from Red Mountain Press. A former NEA Fellow, Levering has won the 2018 Carve Magazine Poetry Contest, the 2017 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize, and the 2014 Literal Latté Poetry Award. You can find out more about him and his work by visiting his website at donaldlevering.com.