By Francesca Paris Poetry Flash, a Berkeley-based poetry magazine established in 1972, faces a threat to its existence from a rent hike that could be as high as 27%. According to editor and publisher Joyce Jenkins, the landlord has sent her a letter stating that he intends to charge “market rate” and increase rent as […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN Charlie Brown is coming to town with the opening on Saturday of Berkeley Playhouse’s production of the two-time Tony Award-winning musical You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown at the Julia Morgan Theater. The play, which is, of course, based on the famous comic strip “Peanuts,” by Charles M. Schulz, is directed and choreographed by Christina […]
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The man behind the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival: Mark Baldridge, 1948-2014
By Sharon Coleman For decades, Berkeley has been enriched by a vibrant literary community with poetry at its heart, as we see in downtown Berkeley’s Addison Street Poetry Walk. At the heart of the poetry community since 1972 has been Poetry Flash, a hub for reviews, articles, event listings, and presenter of many singular literary […]
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Berkeley art ambassador’s love of poems spawns a book
By J. Ruth Gendler A few years ago, Berkeley ceramic artist Susan Felix invited her wide circle of friends to write poems for her — both well-known writers and people who never had written poems before. Some of the poets, like former California Poet Laureate Al Young, appreciated the assignment, while others, such as poets […]