
L. A. Johnson
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Call me Liz | Poet | Mellon Humanities & University of the Future postdoctoral fellow at @USC | Author of chapbook Little Climates (@BullCityPress)
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http://LA-Johnson.com 23-03-2009 08:59:35
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Excited to announce that my first book of poetry, Reality Checkmate, comes out this March 2025 from Four Way Books!!!! Immense thanks to all of my friends, family, teachers, and mentors for supporting me along the way 💙🧡 I can’t wait to share this collection with you.


Beyond thrilled to share a new poem by Larry Levis in The New Yorker! Along with David St. John & James Ciano, I’ve been hard at work for years researching and assembling Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis, forthcoming Graywolf Press in 2026. The Levis legacy lives!



This year I edited almost three dozen features for Poetry Foundation—everything from profiles to criticism to unclassifiables. Here they all are for your readerly enjoyment: poetryfoundation.org/articles/16418…

I’m beyond thrilled to have my poem “Lost Music” included in the December issue of POETRY! Thank you to Adrian Matejka, Lindsay Garbutt, and the entire POETRY magazine team for supporting my work!


Today's Featured Poem: "Travelers Insurance Presents: The Triumph of Man" by Christopher Blackman, from Three-Day Weekend, published by Gunpowder Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/travel-in…





Thrilled to share another new Larry Levis poem, "Prayer" in this week's The New Yorker! Stay tuned for Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2026 Jeff Shotts




Our Spring National Poetry Month issue is Live! featuring art from Richard Siken and poems from Christian J. Collier Blas Falconer Justin Rigamonti and many more! Link in comments


thankful to have a poem in the NaPoMo 2025 issue of The Account and for the keen attention of its editors





New work from our editor L. A. Johnson in the inaugural issue of Autocorrect! Congrats to L.A. and the other wonderful writer + Shoutout to Adam Clay for the amazing first issue.