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LVNG With provides support by forming a community of patients and their loved ones so they can inspire one another and exchange helpful information about their treatment.
LVNG With addresses these stigmas by dispelling myths that prevent lung cancer patients from seeking proper treatment and seeing hope in their condition.
His poems have appeared in
LVNG, Poetry New York, and Chicago Review.
His poems have appeared in
LVNG and Poetry New York, and his translations of Holderlin appeared in Outlet.
Somewhere along the line, while his work was appearing in Sulfur, OINK!, Origin, (even
LVNG!), it started also appearing in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Poetry, as well as in a Best American Poetry anthology (edited by John Ashbery).
Although ARK concludes with a rocket ready to "Lift Off," Johnson begins again from that edge of apocalypse envisioned earlier, exploring it at length in his first substantial poem after ARK, "Blocks to be Arranged in a Pyramid, In Memoriam AIDS." In a beautifully printed 20" X 25" broadside published by
LVNG Press in 1996, a pyramid of eleven levels and sixty-six quatrains frame Johnson's darkest work of verse.