Judy Halebsky + Nina Lindsay

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday, August 7th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Judy Halebsky and Nina Lindsay.

Poetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews!

Judy Halebsky’s most recent book is Tree Line. Dean Rader says, “Robert Frost believed a poem should begin in delight and end in wisdom, but inTree Line, Judy Halebsky proves a poet never has to choose between the two—her poems begin in both and end in both. Smart, sexy, thoughtful, and beautiful, Halebsky’s lyrics are a masterful marriage of tradition and innovation.” Her first book,Sky=Empty, won the New Issues Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award. Her chapbook,Space/Gap/Interval/Distance won the Poets-Under-Forty Award from Sixteen Rivers Press.

Nina Lindsay’s new book of poems is Because. It is a book that reminds us why it matters that we are here, living our complicated lives, our days crowded with houses, buses, work, cafes, bakeries, fear and singing, brief joy and “rapturous dust”. These subtle and surprising poems are deeply engaged with the present, reminding us of how we are enmeshed with the particularities of existence. Musing and wondering, grieving and praising, these poems dwell in both the inner and outer worlds, in the mysteries of our daily actions and our dreaming selves. W. S. Di Piero says, “… Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world, her world, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen…The familiar becomes, in her telling, unfamiliar and fraught….The poems, too, even in their melancholies, are rapturous”. Her first collection, Today’s Special Dish, was published in 2007. She is a member of the Northern California Book Reviewers; among her honors is the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize.