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About this episode

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 author of several collections, including Casting for the Cutthroat. For two decades he was managing editor of Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press; currently he is managing editor of Hip Pocket Press. Charles Entrekin will also be reading from new poems concerning illness. For more about "Poetry Flash" go to:http://poetryflash.orgPlease support Poetry Flash with your attention and interest.Videographer, John Rhodes ( http://rhodespoetry.com )

• Category

  Learning

• Release Date

  Jul 21, 2009

• Runtime

  30:46