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Poetry Flash Founded in 1972, Poetry Flash magazine builds community through literature through its online review and events. See Poetryflash.org.

Poetry Flash, Literary Review & Calendar for California, is an online, monthly literary magazine with reviews, interviews, poems, and literary news. The calendar features both poetry, fiction, and nonfiction events for calendar. Poetry Flash Reading Series presents readings on Thursday evenings at Moe's Books, Berkeley, and on Sunday afternoon each month at East Bay Booksellers, Oakland. Poetry Flash also produces the Northern California Book Awards in San Francisco, sponsors the Northern California Book Reviewers association, and presents the annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival in Berkeley's Civic Center Park.

Support the creative arts! Vote Yes on Measure Y in Berkeley!
10/10/2026

Support the creative arts! Vote Yes on Measure Y in Berkeley!

08/31/2026
Poetry Flash presents a Father's Day poetry reading by Robin Becker, Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems, Armen Davo...
06/20/2026

Poetry Flash presents a Father's Day poetry reading by Robin Becker, Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems, Armen Davoudian, The Palace of Forty Pillars, and Benjamin Gucciardi, West Portal, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

7 JUNE 2026 — Sunday,Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Janée J. Baugher, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, with poet ...
06/06/2026

7 JUNE 2026 — Sunday,Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Janée J. Baugher, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, with poet and psychoanalyst Alice Jones, Cadence of Vanishing, a memoir, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

The featured books will be available at the reading. Janée J. Baugher's book is also at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash. This event will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series

Come see us at the Bay Area Book Festival on May 31st!
05/18/2026

Come see us at the Bay Area Book Festival on May 31st!

Please consider a donation to Poetry Flash for Giving Tuesday! We are a nonprofit that has been creating a vibrant liter...
12/02/2025

Please consider a donation to Poetry Flash for Giving Tuesday! We are a nonprofit that has been creating a vibrant literary community for over 50 years through publishing and events. Help us promote poetry! Donate this month and your contribution will be matched by a generous donation! https://poetryflash.org/give/

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1450 4th Street, # 4
Berkeley, CA
94710

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 8pm
Tuesday 11am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Thursday 11am - 8pm
Friday 11am - 8pm

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+15105255476

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