News & Events
I want to surprise and entertain both my readers and myself.
-Lynn Levin
Events
Upcoming appearances by Lynn Levin
July 2025
- Friends of the Avenue of the Arts Book Club, discussion of House Parties, Philadelphia, PA–Monday, July 28, 2025, 5 p.m.
August 2025
Warminster Library Bookfair, Warminster Township Free Library, Warminster, PA– Saturday, August 2, 2025, 1-4 p.m.
September 2025
- Doylestown Arts Festival, Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County. Sunday, September 7, 1-3 p.m.
- No River Twice: Poetry Improv. On Zoom–Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 7-8 p.m.
- Questors Speakers Series (Private Event), The Gatesworth, St. Louis, MO–Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- Curtis Institute of Music, guest poet, Wednesday, September 24, 2025
- Franklin Inn Club (Private Event), Philadelphia, PA, “In Brief: Loving the Short Story”–Thursday, September 25, 2025
October 2025
- Curtis Institute of Music students perform original works responding to poems in my 2005 poetry collection Imaginarium, Drexel University, Main Auditorium–Wednesday, October 8, 2025 1:00-2:00 p.m.
- Women’s Club of Huntingdon Valley (Private Event). Presentation of House Parties–Thursday, October 9, 2025.
- Moonstone Series, Sueño, 114 S 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA, hosted by Anne-Adele Wight. New short fiction and poetry, with Amy Small-McKinney and Mac Chandler. Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 7 p.m.
November 2025
- ONE ART X Keystone Poetry, contributors reading on Zoom–Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2 p.m.
- Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading, with other authors, Township Library of Lower Southampton, 1983 Bridgetown Pike, Feasterville, PA–Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
December 2025
- Volta: Center for Writing Arts, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA. The Writer’s Life: A Panel Discussion, with Terrence Culleton, Elvis Alves, and Hayden Saunier. Bucks County Community College, Tyler Hall 142–Thursday, December 4, 2025, 7-9 p.m.
January 2026
February 2026
March 2026
- Words with You, featuring contributors to Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. On Zoom–Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 5 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Pacific
April 2026
News
How does a writer invent quirky predicaments for characters and strange what-if scenarios for
plots? What is it like to be both a fiction writer and poet? Lynn Levin talks about this and more
with poet Carolyne Wright in the interview “Playthings of Chaos” featured in the Winter 2023
(#112) print edition Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Learn more by going here:
https://raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-review/print-edition/
As Seen in Philadelphia Magazine
The Best Books to Read This Summer
Lynn Levin podcasts and video recordings of readings
- The Musical Innertube Podcast. Air date: May 2, 2023 “Lynn Levin: poet, teacher, translator, critic. Is there anything in literature she can’t do? Apparently not! Now you can add ‘short story writer’ to that list! House Parties is full of characters, twists, and a bit of fun!” Hosts Don Rooney and John Timpane talk to Lynn Levin about the short stories in House Parties.
You can listen to the podcast here or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Audible, Stitcher, YouTube, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- Lynn Levin reads from her poetry collection The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020) in a Moonstone Arts Virtual Reading. Recorded July 2020.
You can watch the video on YouTube here.
Lynn Levin is a founding member of the poetry improv troupe No River Twice.
- Lynn Levin is a founding member of No River Twice, an improvisational poetry reading collaboration in which audience and poets interact to determine the direction of the reading. You can learn more about No River Twice by going here.
Poem by Lynn Levin in artwork by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer
Lynn Levin’s poem “If You Are Reading This” appears in conceptual artist Jenny Holzer’s artwork For Philadelphia (2018) a display of LED text scrolling across the ceiling of the Comcast Technology Center, a new skyscraper in Philadelphia. Levin’s poem accompanies poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Anna Swir, William Carlos Williams, Charles Bernstein, Jeanne Murray Walker, and others.
You can see an image of part of Holzer’s For Philadelphia here.
