Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community Updated August 15, 2007 WATERSHED Environmental Poetry Festival Saturday, August 18, 2007 • Berkeley Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park One block west of Downtown Berkeley BART  featuring Robert Hass Michael McClure with saxophonist George Brooks Sandra Alcosser Rebecca Solnit Maya Khosla Music by Toad Pink plus Student Poets from California Poets in the Schools & River of Words Voices of the Watershed readings with Chris Olander Indigo Moor • Margot Pepper Guarionex Delgado • Chad Sweeney ,Grace Grafton • Jennifer K. Sweeny We Are Nature open reading (sign up by noon on site) Eco Updates from Ecocity Builders with Kirstin Miller Timothy Burroughs Berkeley's Measure G Climate Action Initiative Elyce Judith Citizens for a Strawberry Creek Plaza & Ecology Center with Kirk Lumpkin (speakers to be announced) River Village Literary & Environmental Exhibits (to register click here) 10 AM Strawberry Creek Walk led by Chris Olander with readings by participating poets and talks by creek restoration experts Meet on the UC Berkeley Campus Oxford and Center Streets Book Signing by Featured Readers at Ecology Center Bookstore Tent Check back for program updates! Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is a collaboration of Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97 Poetry Flash • EcoCity Builders Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market with support from The Watershed Keepers - our individual donors & volunteers Zellerbach Family Fund • East Bay Municipal Utility District Civic Arts Program, City of Berkeley This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant received from The James Irvine Foundation. Acme Bread Company • Berkeley Horticultural Nursery Berkeley Bow; Produce • Bette's-To-Go • Cheese Board Monterey Market • Semifeddies Bakery • Voila the Juice Company   MLK, Jr., Civic Center Park is Wheelchair Accessible. Spoken Word Performances Sign Language Interpreted.