23rd annual Poetry Flash
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
Stand up for the Earth
Saturday, October 13th
from 10 AM to 4:30 PM
at Civic Center Park,
Readings:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
in Berkeley, California.
watershed@poetryflash.org
Free to the public, bring low chairs, blankets, picnic on the grass.
Strawberry Creek walk hosted by Chris Olander begins at 10AM
Meet at the corner of Oxford and Center streets.
Featured readers: Iris Dunkle, Maya Khosla, Joan Gelfand,
plus eco-dance by Sharon Coleman with Barry Ebner on guitar at the grove.
plus eco-dance by Sharon Coleman with Barry Ebner on guitar at the grove.
Plus book signings and poetry writing and art events at River Village.
Readings:
We are Nature reading (open mike sign up at noon).
1:15 PM: River of Words youth reading an awards with Robert Hass,
1:30 PM California Poets in the Schools student reading
with Maureen Hurley, Brennan DeFrisco, and other CPITS teachers.
2 PM: welcome
Big reading: Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Leanne Sullivan, Maya Khosla, Joan Gelfand, CS Giscombe, Tonga Eisen-Martin, Forrest Gander, Ellery Ackers, Robert Coats, Iris Dunkle, Chris Olander, Gwynn O'Gara, and more.
Big reading: Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Leanne Sullivan, Maya Khosla, Joan Gelfand, CS Giscombe, Tonga Eisen-Martin, Forrest Gander, Ellery Ackers, Robert Coats, Iris Dunkle, Chris Olander, Gwynn O'Gara, and more.
4:30PM closing ceremonies, grand finale.
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is a collaboration with Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate, 1995-1997, Poetry Flash, and the Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, Pegasus Books, Moe's Books, East Bay Express, Poets & Writers, Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation.
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