24th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley CA * Join us—Stand up for the Earth! * Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community * October 5 & 6, 2019
* Saturday, October 5, 10 am sharp – 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 and nature commentary, gather at the southeast corner of Oxford at Center, near the sculpture of the World Globe as you enter the UC campus.
* Saturday, October 6, Noon to 4:30 pm • Free
Festival Main Stage • Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park • Berkeley
See link for list of participants, sponsors and more information:
http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=watershed_2019
* Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is co-founded by Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97, and is a collaboration of Poetry Flash and the Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers’ Market, in conjunction with: 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Pegasus Books Downtown, Moe’s Books.