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30 JANUARY 2021 — saturday

  • The Ina Coolbrith Circle presents the 94th Annual Poets Dinner Contest, this year held online through Zoom, celebrating the winners of the following categories, Grand Prize: "Metaphysics" by Robert Eastwood; Beginnings and Endings: "My Husband Has Cancer" by Deborah Grossman; Humor: "Learning to Box at 70" by Judith Chibante; Love: "I Married in the Year of Assassinations" by Judith Chibante; Nature: "Yosemite Poem" by Dorothy Gilbert; People: "Facial Recognition" by Sam Hersh; Poet's Choice: "Gleaning Light" by Madeline Aranda; Spaces and Places: "The Camp Fire" by Dorothy Gilbert; and Theme-Climate: "Drought" by Sandra Anfang; join these poets and more as they read their poems, emceed by Louse Moises, Chair of the Poet's Dinner, free, online, 2:00-5:00 pm PST (For more information: www.coolpoetry.org)
  • Poet Hollie Hardy hosts Saturday Night Special, a monthly East Bay open mic poetry reading, featuring poets M.G. Martin and Jennifer Hasegawa, with open mic to follow (three-minutes maximum), free, online via Zoom, 7:00-9:30 pm PST (RSVP to attend/sign up for open mic: www.facebook.com/events/206397897814868)
  • The 25th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival presents the Strawberry Creek Walk, featuring poetry, nature commentary, and dance, hosted by Nevada County Poet Laureate Chris Olander, with readings by Lucille Lang Day, Terri Glass, Rooja Mohassessy, Kirk Lumpkin, and nature commentary by Tim Pine, Environmental Protection Specialist, UCB Environmental Health and Safety, on the natural history of Strawberry Creek, also "River Light," a live stream contemporary dance by Sharon Coleman, to spoken word poetry by Chris Olander, free, online via Zoom, Noon-2:00 pm PDT (For more information: poetryflash.org/programs/?p=watershed_2021)
  • The 25th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival presents "25 Years of Watershed: Writers, Nature & Community: A Photo Montage by Steven C. Wilson," with a Poetry Invocation by Sandra Gilbert reading "Climate Change, California 2017," and featuring readings by Jane Hirshfield, Ellery Akers, Devreaux Baker, California Poets in the Schools students with poet-teachers Maureen Hurley and Brennan DeFrisco, Marx Arax, The Dreamt Land: Chasing Waters and Dust Across California, winner of the Northern Caliornia Book Award in Nonfiction, hosted by Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg, free, online via Zoom, 3:00-6:00 pm PST (For more information: poetryflash.org/programs/?p=watershed_2021)

31 JANUARY 2021 — sunday

  • Lone Glen presents a book launch and reading for three writers and their latest books: Meredith Clark (Lyrebird), Arisa White (Who's Your Daddy, forthcoming in March 2021), and Maw Shein Win (Storage Unit for the Spirit House), celebrate these writers with an afternoon of poetry and prose, free, online via Zoom, 4:00 pm PST (RSVP to attend: loneglen.com)
  • The 25th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival presents "We Are Nature" Open Reading, with host blake more, who will also read from her poetry, three-minute reading spots, sign up in advance by emailing watershed@poetryflash.org and write "WATERSHED OPEN READING" in the subject line; poems on environmental justice, nature, eco-poetics, and more are most welcome, free, online via Zoom, 1:00-2:00 pm PST (For more information: poetryflash.org/programs/?p=watershed_2021)
  • The 25th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival presents "25 Years of Watershed: Writers, Nature & Community: A Photo Montage by Steven C. Wilson," with readings by Robert Hass, with a tribute to Barry Lopez, Brenda Hillman, Kristin George Bagdanov, Craig Santos Perez, Joseph Stroud, with a tribute Berkeley poet Bill Mayer, Lucille Lang Day, hosted by Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg, free, online via Zoom, 3:00-5:00 pm PST (For more information: poetryflash.org/programs/?p=watershed_2021)

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