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If you would be a poet, write living newspapers….

Don't ever believe poetry is irrelevant in dark times.

—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dear Friend and Reader,

Poetry is deeply relevant in these trying times; it nourishes the spirit, keeps empathy alive against division, anger, and mistrust. Poetry develops our awareness and leads us back to the inner voice.

Poetry Flash supports poets and poetry.
Help us celebrate our 50th Anniversary!

Poetryflash.org is a "living newspaper," brimming with reviews, poems, essays, interviews, news, and calendar of events for all of California. It's our mothership, the same beloved publication that you might remember from its original print format. Your contribution now will sustain and strengthen this vital literary resource in celebration of our 50th Anniversary, (1972-2022).

The pandemic broke our hearts, stunned us, and upended our goals. A silver lining is the revisioning of our Poetry Flash Reading Series as both an online and now, in-person, gathering again, and the redesign of our literary calendar to better announce both online and in-person literary events in California.

The Northern California Book Awards—our all-genre, annual celebration of authors and writing—was presented virtually twice during the pandemic, and now is in-person at the San Francisco Public Library. (See the video on the Poetry Flash NCBA 2022 page (under Programs) and the SFPL YouTube channel). Your continued support keeps our programs vibrant.

Our Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival took place on Zoom twice during the pandemic, and is now, as of October 2022, back in person at Civic Center Park in Berkeley. We look to poets, poetry, musicians, and nature writers to continue an important dialogue on how we truly are nature, how we must seek environmental justice, and the meaning and origins of climate change.

Visit us at Poetryflash.org and see videos of our Poetry Flash Reading Series and Watershed on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel and Poetry Flash Facebook page (Facebook.com/Poetryflash).

If you believe, with us, that poetry and writing crucially matter, please donate today.

Joyce Jenkins

Poetry Flash, Editor & Director, http://poetryflash.org
Northern California Book Awards
1450 Fourth Street, #4
Berkeley, California 94710
editor@poetryflash.org
(510) 525-5476

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