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

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 Fl

ash 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.

07/05/2026

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).

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

05/18/2026

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

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/

Address

1450 4th Street, # 4
Berkeley, CA
94710

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+15105255476

Website

http://www.poetryflash.org/

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