Phillip X Levine

Phillip X Levine has been poetry editor for Chronogram magazine since June 2003. He is also the president of the Woodstock Poetry Society. "All the people I was going to be when I grew up - they're still here"
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Poetry July 2026

by Phillip X Levine

Dust and Stone By shout and scrape of shovel the blue was moved from slumber Its’ well-knit cap of soil and root undone and set asunder And now the “live” stone bare to men’s grasping reach and eyes A turn began to circle ‘round the takers of this prize The Boss, he works his “property” […]

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