This is a collection of Featured Poets Reading in Poetry Flash Magazine Readings. This is The "Open Mic Poetry", read from usually Moe's Bookstore, and Diesel Bookstore, both are in the San Francisco East bay. These usually are well-published poets.
This is a Poetry Flash Video from their yearly Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival. This is a clip of the well-known poet Kim Addonizio reading at that festival. Here is a description of Kim Addonizio. Kim Addonizio's fifth poetry collection, Lucifer at the Starlite, was recently published by W.W. Norton. Her collection Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist. Addonizio has also authored two instructional books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux), and Ordinary Genius...
Ann Fisher-Wirth's new book of poems is Carta Marina; Carolyn Forche says it's "at once a lyric triptych of searing beauty and an absorbing novella that turns upon a disclosed secret from a woman's life. The poet becomes a cartographer of the heart as she moves through a year's sojourn in Sweden, lighting candles in her own darkness." Ann Fisher-Wirth's two previous books of poems are Blue Window and Terraces. Among her honors are a Rita Dove Poetry Award and two Poetry Fellowships from the Mi...
This is a video from the Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival 2009. This segment contains poetry by Robert Hass, and one poem read in unison by most of the featured poets at the festival. Below is a short description of Robert Hass. ROBERT HASS, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005, author of sixteen books including poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, Pulitzer Prize 2008, National Book Award 2007, two-time National Book Critics Circle Award, MacArthur Fello...
This is Poetry Flash's poetry videos from the Diesel Bookstore at Rockridge Cher Dumesnil's first book of poems, In Praise of Falling, is the winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Michael Waters says of it, "Cheryl Dumesnil passionately and at times irreverently approaches the consequences of desire. . .a debut of extraordinary transparency and generosity." She is the editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall and co-editor ...
This is a Poetry Flash Reading from September 2009 at Diesel Bookstore i n Rockridge, the San Francisco East Bay Area. The featured reader opening up to the mic is Jenny Browne. Here is a short description of Jenny and her works: Jenny Browne's most recent book of poems, her third, is, The Second Reason; Nick Flynn calls it, "Wild and beautiful and surprising. In this poet's hands the seeming mundane is transformed into the nearly sacred, the elemental reveals its inner mysteries, and the scra...
This is Poetry Flash’s Poetry Podcast. Featured Poets open up to the mic.This is Poetry Flashes August Video from Diesel Bookstore of poetess Lucille Lang Day.About Lucille Lang:Lucille Lang Day’s new book of poems is The Curvature of Blue; Alicia Ostriker enthuses about it, “Intelligence enjoying itself, awareness at play, attentiveness dancing through life’s minefields smiling at itself in its new black car. . . a wonderful book and I feel lucky to have read it.” Lucille Day has published fo...
Roz Spafford’s new book of poems is Requiem, winner of the 2008 Gell Poetry Prize, with a foreword by Carl Dennis: “All the poems in Requiem may be read as attempts to confront the presence of death in our lives . . .What is remarkable about this steady focus, which offers no easy consolations, is that it leads to a book that is more challenging than it is querulous or elegiac. . .a book that confronts our limitations in a way that makes us feel larger rather than diminished.” Roz Spafford has...
This is a San Francisco Bay Area video of a Poetry Flash poetry reading at the Diesel Bookstore. Charles Entrekin’s new book is a novel, his first, Red Mountain. Alicia Ostriker says of the book, set in Birmingham, Alabama in 1965, “Reading this novel, you will feel it as if it were your own life, your own wounds, being lifted up from the well of memory.” Entrekin was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. A resident of northern California for more than thirty years, he is also a poet and the...
Mary Mackey reads:This is a new Poetry Flash Video. It was taped at the Diesel Bookstore in the San Francisco East Bay in Rockridge.These events are free to attend. If you are in the Bay Area go to to find out where and when these events will be. Mary Mackey is a much-published and acclaimed novelist and poet. Her most recent novel, her eighth, is a love story set in the American Civil War; her forthcoming novel is Her latest book of poetry is She is also the author of several film scripts, in...
Emily Warn Reads: Emily Warn’s new book of poems is Shadow Architect. Publishers Weekly says, “Warn’s clear, inviting lines draw on the shapes of the [Hebrew] letters, [she] has created a serious meditation on Jewish prayer and cosmogony in lyrical prose and in accessible verse, a book that belongs not only on poetry shelves, but amid other Judaica and books of prose and verse on religious themes.” Author of two previous books of poems, Emily Warn is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford Univers...
