Watershed: Robert Hass, Joy Harjo, Michael McClure, Brenda Hillman, Francisco X. Alarcón

29 SEPTEMBER 2012 — saturday

17th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival with 100 Thousand Poets for Change features poetry readings by Robert Hass, Joy Harjo, Brenda Hillman, Michael McClure, Francisco X. Alarcón, Rebecca Foust, with Maya Khosla, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Kim Shuck, Maureen Hurley, Rebecca Moos, Richard Silberg; Laura Moriarty and Brent Cunningham present The Arcadia Project: Postmodern Pastoral; John Oliver Simon with K-12 students from Poetry Inside Out, River of Words, California Poets in the Schools; journalist Mark Hertsgaard, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth; great jazz by The Barry Finnerty Trio, We are Nature Open Mic, enter the drawing for spots on site at noon; River Village exhibits for literary, environmental, and DIY mags, 'zines, organizations, wheelchair accessible, email to request ASL interpreter by September 21, near Berkeley BART, co-sponsored by Poetry Flash, Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, and Ecocity Builders, Civic Center Park, MLK Jr. Way at Center Street, Berkeley, noon-4:30 (510/525-5476, mbb @ poetryflash.org)