Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present another installment of Poetry Flash, this time with Molly Bendall, Gail Wronsky and Karen Kevorkian, on Sunday, February 21st at 3pm.

This is a reading for the exciting new collective, What Books Press.

Molly Bendall has published four books of poems, including Ariadne's Island and, her newest, Under the Quick. She's published her translations of the French Surrealist poet Joyce Mansour in many literary journals. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes and awards from both Poetry Magazine and Denver Quarterly. She'll be reading from Bling and Fringe (The L.A. Poems), that she co-authored with Gail Wronsky; Gillian Conoley says of it, "In these intensely female, lively luscious songs it's Collette meets Beyonce meets Lil Mama meets Cixous and in comes Kristeva...and therefore streams continual surprise."

Karen Kevorkian's new book is Lizard Dream; Joshua Kryah says, "Kevorkian finds the extraordinary in patterns of everyday life. . .Intimate, loving, and spare, Lizard Dream casts the familiar in brilliant luster." Her first full-length book of poems is White Stucco Black Wing. Her fiction and poetry have been widely published in literary journals and anthologized in The Land of Wandering and Line Drives. She's received fellowships from the Djerassi, Ucross, and Wurlitzer foundations and the Millay and McDowell colonies.

Gail Wronsky has published many books of poetry, including Dying for Beauty, a finalist for the Western Arts Federation Poetry Award and her newest, Poems for Infidels. She has also authored the novel The Love-Talkers and Volando Bajito, her translation of the poet Alicia Portnoy. She and Molly Bendall have also co-authored two books of 'cowgirl' poetry, as well as Bling and Fringe.