Poetry Flash with Joan Baranow, Gail Rudd Entrekin, and David Watts at Diesel Bookstore

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland presents another installment of the always excellent Poetry Flash, this time with Joan Baranow, Gail Rudd Entrekin,and David Watts on Sunday, August 5th at 3pm.

Joan Baranow's book of poems is Living Apart; Alicia Ostriker says of it, "Like a younger and more sensuous Mary Oliver, Joan Baranow turns and returns to lyric as to a quenchless source. To listen to her music precise and rich is like overhearing the multiple hum of life and loss in a complicated natural environment." She and her husband David Watts produced the PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine, and co-edited The Healing Art of Writing: Volume One.

Gail Rudd Entrekin's new book of poems is Rearrangement of the Invisible. Ellen Bass calls it "...both praise and eulogy, a cherishing of the moments of our lives and a sorrow song for their passing. Through it all we feel the force of her love - for her family and for all of us. An honest, intimate, and wise book." She is also co-publisher and poetry editor of Hip Pocket Press and editor of the online literary magazine Canary.

David Watts has two new books, At High Altitude: 31 Poems of 31 Words, winner of a Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and the color of desire, a book of short poems that "pathway into the interior consciousness," written under is nom de plume of harvey ellis. He has just released a CD of poetry and jazz. He is a gastroenterologist, a classically trained musician, and a television producer/host.