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RECENT NEWS and UPCOMING EVENTS

Feature Readings and Publications

New! July 26, 2008
St. Paul's Episcopal, 6th and Nutmeg, 92103
7-9 pm, RSVP 619-298-7261 x356
Poets: Gretchen Sousa, Terry Hertzler, Kitty Belsey, Brandon Cesmat, Seretta Martin & Sylvia Levinson.  Music by Trio Gadjo - gypsy jazz
decadent desserts; art exhibit

  April 2, 2008, Wednesday 5;00 pm
Poetry Unlimited Art and Music
with music by Dominique and Valerie Kim
La Jolla/Riford Library
7555 Draper Ave, La Jolla
858-552-1657

New! Soon-to-be published:
"Spoon" a poem, in Hunger and Thirst - a new anthology from City Works Press

  Four poems in City Works 2008
reading on May 3, 1-3 pm
at City College 1313 Park Blvd, Room B-103

February 3, 2008
Poets, Inc.
Sylvia Levinson and Shadab Zeest Hashmi
1:00 (reception begins 12:30)
Municipal Gallery, 142 W. Grand Ave.
Escondido CA
open mike follows

My poem, "After Midnight" is included in the San Diego Writers, Ink 2008 Anthology
www.sandiegowriters.org

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
 Info: 619-388-3261 or 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.html

My poem, "Linkages" is published in the current Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets. Contact www.tebotbach.org for information or to purchase the book.

"I Watch You Breathe," is published in the inaugural edition of The San Diego Poetry Annual available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com


Gateways is reviewed in issue, #43, of The Mindfulness Bell, 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.