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Published by Poetry Playhouse Publications, Levering’s 17th poetry book, Man-Moth & The Gospel of Possibility, was inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “The Man-Moth.” His book parlays Bishop’s single poem about a hybrid human-moth creature who rides the subways and scales the skyscrapers of NYC into a series of poems exploring his origins, his ostracism as an “other,” his yearning to join moths in their migrations, his dancing and romances, and his existential angst as he nears metamorphosis. Man-Moth’s antennae pick up transmissions of The Gospel of Possibility, a psychedelic ergot inspired text rejecting taboo and habit and promoting possibility as an ethos. A unique double-voiced script based on the book’s poems was presented live with original music in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. theatres.