Title of Event: Poetry Flash with Charles Entrekin & Mary Mackey
When: Sunday, July 5, 2009 3:00 PM
Location: DIESEL, A Bookstore OAKLAND
Description:
Charles Entrekin's new book is a novel, his first, Red Mountain. Alicia Ostriker says of the book, set in Birmingham, Alabama in 1965, "Reading this novel, you will feel it as if it were your own life, your own wounds, being lifted up from the well of memory." Entrekin was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. A resident of northern California for more than thirty years, he is also a poet and the author of several collections, including Casting for the Cutthroat. For two decades he was managing editor of Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press; currently he is managing editor of Hip Pocket Press.

Mary Mackey is a much-published and acclaimed novelist and poet. Her most recent novel, her eighth, is The Notorious Mrs. Winston, a love story set in the American Civil War; her forthcoming novel is The Widow's War. Her latest book of poetry is Breaking the Fever. She is also the author of several film scripts, including the award-winning feature Silence, and she is a former president of the West Coast branch of PEN.