Joyce Jenkins- Berkeley Open Mic Poetry. This is the first video created for poetry flash by John Rhodes to help digitize some of Poetry Flash Magazines efforts to put poets in the spotlight. This video is from the Berkeley Poetry Festival where Joyce Jenkins got an award. Here is a description of that award from Louis Cuneo's web site about that award: 3rd Lifetime Achievement Award The Berkeley Poetry Festival and the City of Berkeley are proud to announce that this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry will be Joyce Jenkins. Jenkins has been the editor of Poetry Flash, a national bi-monthly poetry magazine, since the 1970’s and is credited with bringing poetry to the community in a lively and interesting way . She is also a nationally recognized poet in her own right.Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington will present the award for the City of Berkeley. Previous recipients of the award are Julia Vinograd and Maggie Meyer.You can find out more about Poetry Flash by going to:http://poetryflash.org .If you would like to find out more about Louis Cuneo who ran the festival go to: http://mothershen.com .You can find out more about John Rhodes the poet videographer by going to: http://rhodespoetry.com .Feed Shark Less