poetry flash

POETRY FLASH

*Poetry Flash-    The Punchdown

William Carlos Williams: It’s difficult to get the news from poems…
Us: … but you can get the news about poetry! Celebrate California’s most enduring Living Poetry Newspaper—online at poetryflash.org since 2010. Today’s readers have all been published in, read for, or work on Poetry Flash.

Poetry Flash, https://poetryflash.org/
1450 Fourth Street, #4, Berkeley, CA 94710

• Literary Calendar & Review, Poetry Flash Reading Series
• Northern California Book Awards, NCBA
• Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival

Celebrating 50 years of building community, 1972-2022
MC: Poetry Flash editor/director Joyce Jenkins’ collections are Portal and Joy Road. Poems in The Place That Inhabits Us, ZYZZYVA; honors include American Book Award, Berkeley Poetry Festival lifetime award, more.

Readers are:
Sally Ashton is a writer, teacher, and DMQ Review editor. Her fifth collection is Listening to Mars. Her poetry is headed to the Moon with the Lunar Codex Project, 2024.

Judy Halebsky’s collections are Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged), (Miller Williams Poetry Prize), Tree Line, Sky=Empty (New Issues Prize), and Space/Gap/Interval/Distance, chapbook. She directs the low-residency MFA, Dominican University.

Rosalinda Monroy is a 2024 MFA Creative Nonfiction graduate, Saint Mary’s College, and received the Brenda Hillman Award (outstanding literary work); Agnes Butler Award (Literary Excellence); and the Teaching Fellowship.
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Eliot Schain’s poetry appeared in American Poetry Review. His newest collection is The Distant Sound (Sixteen Rivers Press); selections released as an album with guitarist Harrison Flynn, (Apple Music, Spotify)

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4pm Leg 1 - The Punchdown Wine Bar