JOIN US¡ªStand Up for the Earth With Poetry and Music!!
29th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
Saturday, October 5, 2024
10 am - 4:30 pm
Strawberry Creek Walk?
10 am, Free Meet Center at Oxford, edge of UC Berkeley campus
Poetry, nature commentary, and an easy walk along beautiful Strawberry Creek through UC Berkeley with?Chris Olander, Nevada County Poet Laureate 2019-2021;?Claire Blotter,?Expanding. Water. Ways;?Emilie Lygren,?What We Were Born For,?Elizabeth Dougherty, founder and director of Wholly H2O, ?Gabriel Cortez, Ecology Center Poet-in-Residence, and?Mario Ellis Hill.
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival Saturday, October 5, 2024 Noon to 4:30 pm,?Free
Martin Luther King, Jr.?Civic Center Park, alongside the Farmers' Market,?
downtown Berkeley, two blocks from BART
Poetry & Music Celebrating Writers, Nature, & Community!
Jane Hirshfield, Northern California Book Award-winner?for Lifetime Achievement and Service, ¡°one of American poetry¡¯s central spokespersons for the biosphere,¡±?The Asking;?San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim;?Poet Laureate of California?Lee Herrick,?In Praise of Late Wonder;?James Cagney,?Martian: The Saint of Loneliness,?James Laughlin Award-winner from the Academy of American Poets;?John Shoptaw,?Near-Earth Object;?Ellery Akers,?A Door Into the Wild: Poetry and Art;?Marsha de la O,?Creature, Pitt Poetry Series;?Cintia Santana,?The Disordered Alphabet,?winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry;?We Are Nature Open Mic;?California Poets in the Schools?students presented by?Tureeda Mikell,?The Body: Oracle of Memory, and?Brennan DeFrisco,?Fly Like the Clouds of Time,?CalPoets State Anthology; Sharon Coleman?and?Ranko Ogura?dance to poetry by?Chris Olander;
World class-jazz by?The Barry Finnerty Trio, known for his work playing for Miles Davis, The Crusaders, Brecker Brothers, Hubert Laws, and more!
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