Carol Levin
Carol Levin’s motto is “The more information you have the more choices you have.”
Long ago, her information gathering began by studying, performing and teaching modern dance. She served as the artistic director of a small company. Later, completed the college curriculum for radio broadcasting, and was on-air as the morning drive-time DJ playing jazz, blues, and news reports.
Along the way, she’s worked at a children’s hospital as the “Employment Manager.” She studied acting at Freehold Theatre Lab/Studio in Seattle and The American Contemporary Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, which led her to train and certify as an Alexander Technique International Certified Teacher.
She spent twenty years as a supernumerary (silent actor) in Seattle Opera productions. Then in the years she was a founding member and Literary Manager of the Art Theatre of Puget Sound, she translated, along with two Russians, Anton Chekhov’s four major plays and a Dictionary of Stanislavski Terms for Theater artists.
Also, she has a lot of information about yoga and of course, writing poetry.
Recent poems appear in The Poeming Pigeon, A Literary Journal of Poetry, The Literary Nest, and World Enough Writers’ Ice Cream Poems Anthology. Her work’s been widely published in journals and anthologies, print and online, in Russia, New Zealand, Germany, UK, and the US.
She is Editorial Assistant at the journal, Crab Creek Review in Seattle. She also teaches he Breathing Lab / Alexander Technique. www.the-breathing-lab.com
Carol has another motto too: “Surround yourself with excellence, it brings out the best in you.”.
An Undercurrent of Jitters book launch at the Noric Museum in Ballard, SUnday September 16, 2018. Meet in museum library—such a wonderful room. Everyone welcome.
Doors open at 2:30pm, reading at 3:00pm. Then a party at Carol's place to help celebrate herynew collection An odyssey into facets of the subject of marriage. Within: laws, history, culture, rules, religion, commerce, gender, expectations, outcomes and personal dramas. Secret Garden Books are the host bookseller.
Carol will be at the MoonPath Press group reading at Open Books, Seattle, WA. Saturday, November 3rd from 7:00pm - 8:30pm.
Read an interview with Carol on the Seattle Opera Blog.
Read Shin Yu Pai's review of Confident Music Would Fly Us to Paradise
An Undercurrent of Jitters: $15.00
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Poem from An Undercurrent of Jitters
Without Consent
The silence lay leaden on the plates in-between moments of conversation camouflaging distaste for the groom, for the new nuptials, for vows covertly clinched, hours ago divulged as fact. Not Uncle Syd, not Aunt June not Evelyn and not Nana and especially not Father and more especially not Mother and her husband Harry who in a twist of fate happened to be traveling through. Not one of them lauding, but, doing their best pantomiming glass-lifting to newly-weds. Family laps with paltry napkins politely sitting, strung along the curved off-yellow naugahyde booth at the Rib Pit, Denver, Colorado’s exuberantly celebrated barbecue
Confident Music Would Fly Us to Paradise
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Poem from Confident Music Would Fly Us to Paradise
There’s No Right Way to Do This Wrong
The average kill date for flowering plants is November 11th explains the gardening guru in the morning news. He says, pot them up, cut them back by half, bring them in to a bright room. Yet, I know all the light in the universe won’t keep us from dying. I can see you bringing tenders of hospice and family into a room of vintage green-leaf wallpaper like mine after the doctor comes himself to that room to explain the waning season. Of course I will have mis-heard the doctor’s forecast, and order fresh seeds, new soil.
