EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday, March 15th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by Judy Halebsky & Susan Briante.

Judy Halebsky’s new book of poems is Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged), was a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Katy Peterson says, “Under the spell of Bashõ’s haiku, but written in a voice entirely its own, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) is the first book of poetry I’ve read in years that makes civilization look good. It makes me want to make dinner, make love, make noise.” She’s the author of three previous collections, the first of which, Sky = Empty, won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she moved to the Bay Area to study poetry. Then, after college, she received a fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture to study Japanese literature at Hosei University in Tokyo,…