With support from the California Arts Council, Poetry Flash will offer poetry writing workshops to at-risk youth in 5 EastBay schools, with a primary focus on underserved schools K-12, in Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, and Livermore. The project will expand and build upon our previous John Oliver Simon Legacy Poetry Project.
Poetry Flash publishes monthly issues online, with calendar listings of California online literary events, book reviews, interviews, poems, and calls for submission. We also facilitate the Poetry Flash Reading Series, with a new reading nearly every week, held at independent bookstores, galleries, and other venues in the Bay Area and online. Other projects include the annual Northern California Book Awards and the annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival which also includes the Strawberry Creek Walk and poetry installation art. Events like these feature numerous poets and writers, both prominent ones and newly emerging voices, from California and beyond. We are also putting out a new high-quality anthology of Berkeley Poetry. Poetry Flash has been assisting and inspiring poets and writers in numerous ways for almost fifty years, we have deep roots in the literary community and are one of the oldest dedicated poetry organizations on the west coast.

