Description:
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.
12 Podcasts:
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2. JohnRhodes-AnnFisherWirthPoetryReadingAtDi .. (played times)
3. JohnRhodes-RobertHassAtTheBerkeleyWatershe .. (played times)
4. JohnRhodes-CherylDumesnilPoetryFlashReadin .. (played times)
5. JohnRhodes-JennyBrownePoetryFlashReader439 .. (played times)
6. JohnRhodes-LucilleLangDayReadsPoetryFlashA .. (played times)
7. JohnRhodes-RozSpaffordReadsPoetryFlashRead .. (played times)
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11. JohnRhodes-GynthiaKramanPoetryFlashAtMoes8 .. (played times)
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Kim Addonizio at the Watershed Poetry Festival
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: A Guide for the Poet Within, both from W.W. Norton. Her first novel, Little Beauties, was published by Simon & Schuster in August 2005 and came out in paperback inJuly 06. Little Beauties was chosen as "Best Book of the Month" by Book of the Month Club. My Dreams Out in the Street, her second novel, was released by Simon & Schuster in 2007. She also has a word/music CD with poet Susan Browne, "Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing," available from cdbaby; a book of stories, In the Box Called Pleasure (FC2); and the anthology Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos, coedited with Cheryl Dumesnil. Addonizio's awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship,a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award.Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared widely in anthologies, literary journals, and textbooks, including Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Bad Girls, Chick-Lit, Dick for a Day, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, Penthouse, Poetry, and Threepenny Review. She teaches private workshops in Oakland, CA, and online. For more about Poetry Flash go to http://poetryflash.org For more about the videographer go to: http://rhodespoetry.com
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Ann Fisher-Wirth: Poetry reading at Diesel Bookstore
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 Mississippi Arts Commission. This was an Oakland poetry reading run by Poetry Flash. They can be found at: http://poetryflash.org . For more about the videographer visit: http://rhodespoetry.com .
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Robert Hass at the Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival, plus final poem read by poets in unison.
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 Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Professor. If you would like to find out more about the creators of the Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival, go to: http://poetryflash.org For more about the videographer go to: http://rhodespoetry.com
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Cheryl Dumesnil: Poetry Flash Reading at Diesel Bookstore
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
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Jenny Browne Poetry Flash Reader
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 scraps of overheard language dissole into song". Her two previous books are, At Once, and, Glass. She is also the editor of Provide and Protect, Writers on Planned and Unplanned Parenthood. She's a former Michener Fellow at Austin University of Texas at Austin. If you would like to know more about "Poetry Flash" go to: http://poetryflash.org . For more about John Rhodes the videographer go to: http://rhodespoetry.com .
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Lucille Lang Day reads: Poetry Flash at Diesel Bookstore
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 four previous books of poetry, including Infinities, Wild One, and Self-Portrait with a Hand Microscope, her first, for which she won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, a literary press in the Bay Area.For more info about Poetry Flash go to:http://poetryflash.orgFor more info about the videographer John Rhodes go to:http://rhodespoetry.com
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Roz Spafford Reads: Poetry Flash Reading at Diesel Bookstore
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 been a writer, teacher, and activist for the last three decades. She wrote book reviews and a newspaper column of media and cultural criticism called “Mediations” for much of that time. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in literary magazines. DIESEL, A BOOKSTORE, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, (510) 653-9965, dieselbookstore.com. Near Rockridge BART. For more information, Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476. For more info about Poetry Flash go to: http://poetryflash.org For more info about the videographer John Rhodes go to: http://rhodespoetry.com
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Charles Entrekin: Poetry Flash Video from Diesel Bookstore
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 )
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Mary Mackey: San Francisco Bay Area Poetry Flash Podcast
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 tohttp://poetryflash.orgto 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 The Notorious Mrs. Winston, a love story set in the American Civil War; her forthcoming novel is The Widow’s War. Her latest book of poetry is Breaking the Fever. She is also the author of several film scripts, including the award-winning feature Silence, and she is a former president of the West Coast branch of PEN. If you would like to know more about John Rhodes, the San Francisco open mic poetry podcaster/videographer who taped this go to:http://rhodespoetry.comPlease lend your support to Poetry Flash with your attention and interest.
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Emily Warn: Poetry Flash Magazine at Moes Bookstore: "Open Mic" Poetry
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 University. She has divided her time between Seattle and Chicago, where she was the Webby Award-winning editor for http://poetryfoundation.org.If you would like to know more about Poetry Flash magazine go to: http://poetryflash.orgIf you would like to know more about the videographer, John Rhodes go to: http://rhodespoetry.com
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Cynthia Kraman: Poetry Flash at Moes
Cynthia Kraman Reads: Hello, this is Poetry Flash Magazine at Moe's Bookstore. San Francsico Bay area PoetryPlease support Poetry Flash Magazine"San Francisco Open Mic Poetry"Cynthia Kraman’s long awaited book of poems from Bob Holman’s Bowery Books is The Touch. Marie Ponsot calls it: “Rich, lyrical, sharp, a big world well perceived, Cynthia Kraman’s poems are alive with real ideas. Reading them sent me to e-mailing friends to say what I now say, to you, ‘You have to read this,’” She’s published three previous collections, Taking on the Local Color, Club 82, and The Mexican Murals. She’s been widely published in literary journals and anthologized in Ordinary Women, New York Women, and Bowery Women: Poems. Also a prose writer and a playwright, her career spans the dizzying gap from lead singer/lyricist with the Seattle punk rock band Chinas Comidas to a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and her study of the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.This video was produced by John Rhodes. To find out more about John go to:http://rhodespoetry.com
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Joyce Jenkins of Poetry Flash: Berkeley Poetry Festival Open Mic
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
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