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 of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. If you would like to find out more about Poetry Flash, go to: http://poetryflash.org . For more about the videographer go to: http://rhodespoetry.com