Lynn Levin

Poet • Writer

Poet • Writer

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I want to surprise and entertain both my readers and myself.

-Lynn Levin

Events

Upcoming appearances by Lynn Levin

August  2026

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September  2026

  • A Tribute Reading for Julie Cooper-Fratrick, Freeman Hall, 181 East Court St., Doylestown, PA–Thursday, September 3, 2026, 7 p.m.
  • Commonplace Reader. Author Showcase and Book Signing, 49 S. Main Street, Yardley, PA–Saturday, September 26, 2026, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

October 2026

  • Philly Loves Poetry with host Charles S. Carr–Lynn Levin and Anne-Adele Wight discuss Arguments For: New and Selected Poems (Moonstone Press, 2026) by Chris Bullard. A live broadcast on PhillyCAM–Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
  • No River Twice poetry improv group, on Zoom –Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 7 p.m.
  • A celebration of the forthcoming anthology What Comes Next: Creative Responses to Menopause on the occasion of World Menopause Day (!) on Zoom–Sunday, October 18, 2026, 1 p.m. Eastern

November 2026

  • BUCKSArts Annual Evening of Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Readings, Township Library of Lower Southampton, 1983 Bridgetown Pike, Feasterville, PA–Monday, November 16, 2026, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

December 2026

  • Talking about the short story: A presentation of House Parties, Villas at Shady Brook, Langhorne, PA–Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 6 p.m. 

January 2027

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February 2027

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Photo: Vasiliki Katsarou

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/

Photograph by Nell Hoving - Philadelphia Magazine

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.