About
Levi Macallister
is an author, poet and spoken-word artist whose writing and records often explore grief, faith, love and what it is to be and become human.
Under the moniker Levi The Poet, he has spent seventeen years touring, sharing poetry and creating theatrical audio visual performances into which audiences might enter, and see themselves.
Levi's writing flows through the intersection of religion, spirituality, psychology and lived experience, as does his work as an artistic and spiritual director, where he meets with and accompanies creatives, aspiring artists and seekers as they find their path and walk it.
His first published collection of writing-It's All Worth Living For—is a coffee-table book featuring a decade's worth of poetry, photography and artwork. His most recent book—Pay Attention, You're Alive—is a collection of poetry and essays written between 2021 and 2025, and explores an evolving faith, divorce (and the years that followed), grief, love and new beginnings.
Levi lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his dog, St. Francis The Labradoodle.
Watch Levi The Poet's documentary
It's All Worth Living For
In 2020—one month before the world shut down—Chicago-born videographer Alex Zarek flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico to spend a week with me: documenting my work, interviewing my friends and family, and capturing the places that have made this project what it is.
