Pay Attention,
You’re Alive

My new book is available for preorder.

Pay Attention, You’re Alive is a collection of poetry and short essays written between 2021 and 2025.

So much life and death has happened since I released my first book, It’s All Worth Living For. So much change (which I like to think of as: God, happening).

The work in this collection is the result of those changes—at each point along the way. In the planting of seeds. In their dying. Shells breaking. Watering.

The tilling of whatever kind of dirt I happened to be along the way: the hard path, the rocky ground, the thorny ground, the good soil.

I have been all of it: trampling myself and taking the seeds away, withering in the sun without roots depthy enough to hold, weeded, worried and chokeholded, and even—sometimes—receptive and bountiful.

I'm proud of what's here. A testament to it all.

Nothing is the same at this end of the timeline as it was at the start—a reality full of both grief and gratitude. I would never have chosen what I would now never trade.

Cost
$25

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It’s All Worth Living For

A memoir, of sorts, featuring 10+ years of poetry, prose, journal entries, essays, photography, illustration, handwritten commentary and artwork.

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About The Book

It’s All Worth Living For is a coffee-table book written and designed by Levi The Poet to commemorate the 10-year Anniversary of his time spent together with other human beings (maybe you?) on planet earth.

It features a decade’s worth of poetry, prose, journal entries, commentary, illustration, artwork, photography, and more… now in print for the very first time.

About Levi

Levi Macallister is a multidisciplinary recording artist, author, poet, performer, commission writer, business-owner and [fill-in-the-blank] from Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

  • “I write words for humans, including myself (a human).”

    Born the introverted son of a father whose mental illness led to suicide, and a mother who clung to her faith, Levi turned to writing as a therapeutic means of private expression.

    At the age of 18, he began to share his work in the form of spoken word poetry. Levi's broad taste in everything from hardcore to hip-hop has resulted in a unique contribution to the genre that seems to both fit and transcend it.

    Through blunt lyricism and a captivating audio-visual production, his performances are a wholly immersive experience: an invitation to an audience that might see itself in his stories, and complete them.

    Levi continues to write from a place of personal transparency, combining advocacy and artistry for thousands of listeners across the globe who resonate with his work.

    It's all worth living for.

  • “To witness beauty and bravery and vulnerability and real-ness so blatantly is something that one does not do every day; it is alive and it promotes life. Thank you for following this dream of yours.”

    Bianca

  • “You helped me in my darkest times. I thought there was no way out, but I discovered your poetry.”

    Jason

  • “I know all of the words by heart. I listened to them over and over and over again, finding a comfort in your writing that I couldn't get anywhere else."

    Sam

  • “You taught me the value of words. I chose to major in English because of this. Start writing poetry because of this. Start being vulnerable with my words because of this.”

    Jason

  • “You’ve been a friend to me in places that I have not allowed others to venture. when I have been in the pit... you have gotten down into it with me."

    Tony

  • “Thank you for writing because even in my darkest times I found a friend in your words.”

    Dylan