{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Poetry Flash | image = Joyce Jenkins at Sierra Poetry Festival 2025 (cropped).jpg | caption = Joyce Jenkins at the<br>Sierra Poetry Festival 2025 | type = Quarterly | format = tabloid & online | founded = {{Start date|1972}} | owners = | publisher = Joyce Jenkins | editor = Joyce Jenkins | headquarters = Berkeley, California | ISSN = 0737-4747 | website = [http://poetryflash.org poetryflash.org] }} '''''Poetry Flash''''' (founded 1972) is a literary magazine and website based in the San Francisco Bay Area; it has been called "an institution in the Bay Area's literary culture".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Addison Street anthology: Berkeley's poetry walk |last1=Hass |first1=Robert |authorlink1=Robert Hass |last2=Fisher |first2=Jessica |date=2004 |publisher=Heydey Books |isbn=978-1-890771-94-2 |quote=The calendar quickly evolved, in the hands of Joyce Jenkins, into the tabloid newspaper ''Poetry Flash'', which has become an institution in the Bay Area's literary culture |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsVctDpFH6IC&pg=PA11 }}</ref> It publishes literary reviews, poetry, interviews, and essays as well as an extensive calendar of literary activities on the west coast of the United States.
''Poetry Flash'' is a non-profit corporation. The printed version presently has a tabloid format, appears quarterly, and has a print run of 22,000 copies. Copies are distributed gratis at cafes and shops in the Bay Area or are mailed to paid subscribers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://poetryflash.org/subscribe.html |title=Poetry Flash: How to Subscribe |work=Poetry Flash |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009190659/http://poetryflash.org/subscribe.html |archivedate=2010-10-09 }}</ref> Joyce Jenkins has edited ''Poetry Flash'' since 1978; it was founded in 1972 as a mimeographed calendar of Bay Area poetry readings. Jenkins has been the publisher of ''Poetry Flash'' since 1980.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Addison Street anthology: Berkeley's poetry walk |last1=Hass |first1=Robert |last2=Fisher |first2=Jessica |date=2004 |publisher=Heydey Books |page=253 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsVctDpFH6IC&pg=PA253 |quote=Joyce Jenkins is the editor of ''Poetry Flash'', which has grown from its founding in 1972 as a mimeograph calendar of Bay Area poetry readings to its present role as a quarterly west coast literary review and calendar in a tabloid format with a circulation of 22,000.|isbn=9781890771942 }}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://poetryflash.org/ Official website]
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