22nd Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
Saturday, October 7, 2017, 10:00 a.m.
Strawberry Creek Walk, poetry, talk, and a walk along beautiful Strawberry Creek through UC Berkeley and its underground path through downtown Berkeley to the Watershed Festival at Civic Center Park.�Led by poet/eco-educator Chris Olander with readings along the way by poets Raphael Block, Tiffany Higgins, Jahan Khalighi, Maw Shein Win, El Cerrito Poet Laureate, nature commentary by Tim Pine, UC Berkeley Environmental Health and Safety, and naturalist Glen Schneider. Meet in the Cypress Grove, often called the Redwood Grove (southeast corner of Oxford at Center, near the sculpture of the World Globe as you enter the UC campus) at 10:00 am.
Saturday, October 7, noon-4:30, Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park, Berkeley
"Stand Up for the Earth" with music and dynamic readings by over thirty
poets and writers, including Robert Hass, Pulitzer Prize-winner and US
Poet Laureate 1995-97; Maxine Hong Kingston, Camille T. Dungy, Tongo
Eisen-Martin, Malcolm Margolin, Alison Luterman, San Francisco Poet
Laureate Kim Shuck, Tess Taylor; Invocation by Berkeley Poet Laureate
Rafael Jesús González, with Gerardo Omar Marín on conch and flute;
Malcolm Margolin on The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs,
and Reminiscences, 35th Anniversary Edition; Kirk Lumpkin, Chris
Olander, Raphael Block, Tiffany Higgins, Jahan Khalighi, El Cerrito Poet
Laureate Maw Shein Win; California Poets in the Schools K-12 students
read led by poet-teachers John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley; Chapter
510’s The Biography of Water read in English and Arabic by North Oakland
Community Charter School students; emcees Kirk Lumpkin and Richard
Silberg. Music by The Barry Finnerty Trio; WE ARE Nature Open Mic (enter
drawing on site at noon); RIVER VILLAGE exhibits with Haight Ashbury
Literary Journal, Sixteen Rivers Press, Ecology Center, Poetic Matrix
Press, Sugartown Publishing, California Poets in the Schools, River of
Words Children’s Poetry & Art Contest, St. Mary’s College MFA in
Creative Writing, Poetree writing with Sharon Coleman, Berkeley City
College, Milvia Street Art & Literary Journal, and more; readers
books for sale and signing at the Pegasus Book Tent. Bring your lunch or
visit the Farmers’ Market; one block west from Berkeley BART; 100
Thousand Poets for Change event. Presented by Poetry Flash, co-sponsored
by the Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, Pegasus Books Downtown,
Moe's Books; wheelchair accessible.For more info, visit Poetryflash.org, call (510) 525-5476, or e-mail: info@poetryflash.org. Save the Bay Day partner event.
Join us at the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival—October 7, 2017!
Join us at the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival—October 7, 2017!
POETS WILL ‘STAND UP FOR THE EARTH' AT FESTIVAL
October 3- 6, 2017 | Berkeley Voice, The (CA) ESt Bay Times, Mercury News
Author: Chris Treadway, STAFF COLUMNIST | Page: 2A | Section: News
Heavy-hitters of the poetry world, more than 30 in all, will be in Berkeley on Oct. 7 to "Stand Up for the Earth" at the 22nd annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival.The event, hosted by Poetry Flash from noon to 4:30 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr, Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, is a partner in Save the Bay events being held around the region and will feature insights and meditative thoughts from poets and writers such as Robert Hass (Pulitzer Prize-winner and United States Poet Laureate 1995-97), Maxine Hong Kingston, Camille Dungy, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Malcolm Margolin, Alison Luterman, Kim Shuck (poet laureate of San Francisco), Tess Taylor; Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Raphael Block, Tiffany Higgins, Jahan Khaligi and El Cerrito Poet Laureate Maw Shein Win.
Heavy-hitters of the poetry world, more than 30 in all, will be in Berkeley on Oct. 7 to "Stand Up for the Earth" at the 22nd annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival.
The event, hosted by Poetry Flash from noon to 4:30 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr, Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, is a partner in Save the Bay events being held around the region and will feature insights and meditative thoughts from poets and writers such as Robert Hass (Pulitzer Prize-winner and United States Poet Laureate 1995-97), Maxine Hong Kingston, Camille Dungy, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Malcolm Margolin, Alison Luterman, Kim Shuck (poet laureate of San Francisco), Tess Taylor; Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Raphael Block, Tiffany Higgins, Jahan Khaligi and El Cerrito Poet Laureate Maw Shein Win.
Teachers John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley will lead a reading by K-12 students, and "The Biography of Water" will be read in English and Arabic by North Oakland Community Charter School students.
Rafael Jesus Gonzalez (poet laureate of Berkeley) will present a ceremonial invocation with Gerardo Omar Marin on conch and flute.
For more details visit Poetryflash.org, call 510-525-5476 or email info@poetryflash.org.
Heavy-hitters of the poetry world, more than 30 in all, will be in Berkeley on Oct. 7 to "Stand Up for the Earth" at the 22nd annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival.
The event, hosted by Poetry Flash from noon to 4:30 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr, Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, is a partner in Save the Bay events being held around the region and will feature insights and meditative thoughts from poets and writers such as Robert Hass (Pulitzer Prize-winner and United States Poet Laureate 1995-97), Maxine Hong Kingston, Camille Dungy, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Malcolm Margolin, Alison Luterman, Kim Shuck (poet laureate of San Francisco), Tess Taylor; Kirk Lumpkin, Chris Olander, Raphael Block, Tiffany Higgins, Jahan Khaligi and El Cerrito Poet Laureate Maw Shein Win.
Teachers John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley will lead a reading by K-12 students, and "The Biography of Water" will be read in English and Arabic by North Oakland Community Charter School students.
Rafael Jesus Gonzalez (poet laureate of Berkeley) will present a ceremonial invocation with Gerardo Omar Marin on conch and flute.
For more details visit Poetryflash.org, call 510-525-5476 or email info@poetryflash.org.
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