Levi Cain

Levi Cain is a gay Black writer from Boston, MA. They are a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow, a former Sundress Academy of the Arts Fellow, and a three-time Best of the Net nominee. Their first chapbook, dogteeth., is available from Ursus Americanus Press.

Reading List

Blessed Are the Broke Bois, for They Shall Inherit the Earth

Levi Cain  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

don’t invite me out, i’m broke. checking account like a ghost haunting itself. savings account like bertha mason trailing the manor desperate for blood. debit card is a fucking debit card. credit score a fever dream in the desert for the last twenty years, a whole history of sub-zero scores across the blaring board. six […]

Poem About Fucking Up the Rice Again

Levi Cain  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

how many times have i been caught in the sin of being heavy-handed? too much water being left to overboil too much of my head being anvil-heavy and twice as hard after all these years of being dead broke, zombie-tired or caught in the death rattle of autopay, that which taketh & taketh away. ma […]