Watershed: Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Simon J. Ortiz, Malcolm Margolin, more

26 SEPTEMBER 2015 — saturday

20th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival features readings by over thirty poets including Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass; NCBA and Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire; legendary Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo poet in his first Bay Area reading in ten years; Jane Mead, Money Money Money Water Water Water; C.S. Giscombe Prairie Style; John Shoptaw, Times Beach; Francisco X. Alarcón, Borderless Butterflies: Earth Haikus and Other Poems/Mariposas sin fronteras; Malcolm Margolin, Heyday, and writer Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, California Poets in the Schools students reading led by poet-teachers John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley, Creek Poets reading features Nevada City poet/eco-educator Chris Olander, filmmaker Maya Khosla, Keel Bone; Oakland poet Mk Chavez, Virgin Eyes; Seattle poet, writer, climate activist Emily Johnston, Her Animals; poet/physicist J. David Cummings, Tancho; poet, artist, letterpress printer Theresa Whitehill; and much more, with hosts Richard Silberg and Kirk Lumpkin; music by The Barry Finnerty Trio; We are Nature Open Mic, (to read, enter lottery on site at noon); River Village tents, tables, and exhibits by literary organizations, presses, magazines, and environmental organizations; readers books for signing and sale at the Pegasus Downtown tent; bring your lunch or get it at the Farmers’ Market; one block west from Berkeley BART; A 100 Thousand Poets for Change event co-sponsored by Poetry Flash, Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, Moe's Books; wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreters; Berkeley Civic Center Park, Martin Luther King, Jr. Way at Center Street, Berkeley, noon-4:30 (510/525-5476; to table, e-mail: info@poetryflash.org)