Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash, this time with Jacqueline Berger and Eric Gudas, on Sunday, September 12 at 5pm.

Jacqueline Berger's new book of poetry is The Gift That Arrives Broken, winner of the 2009 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Chana Bloch says, "In her third book Jacqueline Berger surveys the terrain of mid-life. . .Her perceptions about the hungers of body and mind, striking in their candor, are couched in language that honors and deepens the losses, even as she uncovers the gifts to be found in brokenness." Her first book, The Mythologies of Danger, won both the Bluestem Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and her second, Things that Burn, was a winner of the Aga Shahid Ali Prize from the University of Utah Press.

Best Western and Other Poems is Eric Gudas's first book of poems, winner of the 2008 Gerald Cable Book Award. Tony Hoagland says, ". . .Eric Gudas has been one of my secret favorite poets for a long time. This careful, rich collection makes his playful, anguished, perceptive, and humane poems available at last." His poems, reviews, and interviews with poets have been published in The American Poetry Review, Poetry Flash, and elsewhere, and he's also author of the chapbook Beautiful Monsters.