Monday, October 02, 2006

Re: Poetry Flash Readings

Due to the closing of Cody's Books, Poetry Flash readings now take place at Black Oak Books in Berkeley and at Berkeley City College (as an off site collaboration with Cody's Books).These poetry readings are free and open to the public.For more information, contact: Poetry Flash at (510) 525-5476, or www.poetryflash.org.

Poetry Flash presents at Black Oak Books:
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 7:30
THOMAS HEISE & ROBIN EKISS

Thomas Heise's first book of poems is Horror Vacui, 'horror of the vacuum', absence poetically configured. Dean Young says of it, "Poem after poem reimagines itself formally, driven not only by imaginative restlessness but also, impressively, felt need. It is as if each poem honors the emotional vividness of individual experiences with its own true shape." His work appears in many literary publications, is anthologized in American Poets of the New Century and elsewhere, and his honors include the Gulf Coast Prize for Poetry. He's currently at work on a second book of poems as well as a study of twentieth century urban American culture and literarure.

Robin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Widely published in such literary journals as Poetry, Kenyon Review, AGNI, and many others, she was a finalist for the prestigious Walt Whitman Award with her first poetry manuscript. Ironic and lyrical at once, Ekiss's poetry sings mechanism, the Russian doll-like nesting of things within things; beautfully phrased and haunting, these lyrics limn the tenacity of will, gray-on-gray intricacies powering buds, migrating birds, and poets.
BLACK OAK BOOKS
1491 Shattuck Avenue at Vine
Berkeley
(510) 486-0698


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