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RECENT NEWS and UPCOMING EVENTS

Feature Readings and Publications

October 2011 - Two poems published in Shot Glass Journal #5  www.musepiepress.com

July 23, 2011, 7 p.m. St. Paul's Cathedral          5th and Nutmeg, SD 92103 

Second Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010, Open Door Books, Feature reading with Shadab Hashmi

The Gelato Poetry Series, Korky's Ice Cream and Coffee, 2375 San Diego Ave., Old Town,  Fri. August 13, 2010

Teen Poetry Workshop, Santee Library, March 16, 2010

November 12, 2009 - Borders Express, Queen Ka'ahumanu Mall, Kahului, Maui,  

  Review of GATEWAYS and a poem "The Moon" in Golden Lantern, http://www.goldenlantern.com/editor/review10.htm

Recent publications and forthcoming: SD Writers Ink, VIII & Tower Poetry, "Mindful Soup"-  SD Poetry Annual 2008 - "Surface Tension"; CIty Works 2009 - "Yin and Yang", SD Writers V. II - "Curtain: An Elegy",  SD Writers Ink, V I,  "After Midnight," - Magee Park Anthology - "Possibility", "Lizard"

"Spoon" a poem, in Hunger and Thirst - a new anthology from City Works Press

    I am honored to have been chosen National Award Winner City Works 2007 and will be featured along with Local Writer Jim Miller and others published in this year's journal
  
www.cityworkspress.org

Essay - The Poetry of Food is included on the CD First Friday Prose, 3rd Year www.FirstFridayProse.com and was published in Christian Science Monitor
Home Forum section April 23, 2007
www.csmonitor.com/2007/0423/p19s01-hfes.htm
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  "I Watch You Breathe," is published in Mamas and Papas 2010 (City Works Press), The San Diego Poetry Annual and City Works 2007

REVIEWS OF Gateways:The Golden Lantern on-line, May 2009 www.thegoldenlantern.com/editor/review10.htm

The Mindfulness Bell, Issue #43,  A Journal of the Art of Mindful Living in the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. "Each of the 15 poems in Gateways is like a dharma sharing that opens mind and heart. The poems come from stopping...and attending to life around and within".Susan Hadler, Reviewer

 



 

 




Whether writing from the memory of an 8-year old farm girl whose pony died in a fire, a burgeoning adolescent with the first stirrings and insecurities of the teen years, a single mother, corporate executive, lover, lusty older woman or with the peace gained from contemplating nature and

the wisdom gained in aging, Sylvia Levinson’s poetry crafts a few words into many ideas, a few lines into a lifetime of experience, insight, humor and truth.