Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present another installment of Poetry Flash, this time with Marilyn Kallet and Susan Cohen. The Flash will be on Sunday, November 8th, at 3 p.m.

Marilyn Kallet's latest book of poems is Packing Light, a new and selected; X.J. Kennedy says, "Marilyn Kallet writes with candor, infectious humor, and verve. Her poems keep delivering enjoyable jolts that you don't see coming--an immensely skilled crafter of fat-free free verse." Marilyn Kallet is the author of fourteen books, including the book of poems Circe After Hours, Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translation; The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion, which she co-edited; and Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival.

Susan Cohen's new poetry book is Finding the Sweet Spot; Molly Fisk enthuses, "Susan Cohen's poems praise the world in all directions, from the autistic boy who sings to a canyon at four in the morning to the huge flock of crows whose ruckus 'saws into our sleep.' Cohen's words are well-earned, they sear us with a fierce joy." An earlier collection, Backstroking, was a winner of the Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Award. She has had a long, varied career as a journalist, for the San Jose Mercury News, as a freelancer, a faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism, and other positions, with a special interest in science, health, and ethics questions. She is co-author of the new book Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height.