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Poetry Flash

A Poetry Review & Literary Calendar for the West

1450 Fourth Street #4

Berkeley CA 94710

Phone: (510) 525-5476 Fax: (510) 525-6752

E-mail: editor@poetryflash.org

ISSN: 0737-4747 Founded: 1972 Issues per year: 4 Copy Price: free at selected bookstores, libraries, literary centers Subscription (Individuals): $16 for six issues Subscription (Libraries): $16 for six issues

Publisher's Description: Poetry Flash publishes a wide range of book reviews, poems, literary essays, interviews, poems, calls for submissions, and contest information for all creative writers, with the most comprehensive listings of literary events in the West. The calendar offers an in-depth portrait of events all over California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest, with a representative sampling of national conferences and festivals. Poetry Flash provides open access to the vibrant West Coast literary scene, and serves as an independent voice on behalf of poets and writers.

Recent issues include remembrances of Kenneth Rexroth, Thom Gunn, and Philip Lamantia, an interview with Kay Ryan, a talk on spirituality and poem by Robert Hass, an essay on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, and the fiction of Kate Braverman and Gail Wronsky, reviews of Jack Grapes, Matthew Rohrer, and many brief "New & Noted" reviews including Brian Teare, Ilya Kaminsky, Catherine Barnett, Ben Lerner, Eleni Sikelianos, Srikanth Reddy, Donald Revell, Matthea Harvey, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, and many others.

Poetry Flash is printed in a newspaper format in editions of 22,000, and follows the model of the "free paper." Complementing our quarterly print schedule is an active, frequently updated calendar Web site, www.poetryflash.org.