Joyce Jenkins is editor and publisher of Poetry Flash . She is author of Portal and Joy Road, and her poems have appeared in Parthenon West Review , Ambush Review , Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk , ZYZZYVA , The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Watershed , among other publications. She has received the American Book Award, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Lifetime Achievement Award, National Poetry Association's Distinguished Service to Poets & Poetry Award, and the Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Berkeley, California. Richard Silberg is a poet, critic, translator, and Associate Editor of Poetry Flash . His poetry book, Deconstruction of the Blues , received the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award. He is the author of Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry , The Horses: New & Selected Poems , as well as essays and several translations, among them The Three Way Tavern by South Korean poet Ko Un, which won a Northern California Book Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Parthenon West Review, ZYZZYVA, Eleven Eleven , and New American Writing , among many other journals.

He lives in Berkeley, California. ".