26th Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival

Join us—Stand up for the Earth!

Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community in Women's History Month

The Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival video recordings
are posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA

Thanks to our friends at Pegasus Books, Berkeley,
for the WATERSHED POETRY FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP:
https://bookshop.org/shop/watershed

Thursday, March 17, 2022, 7pm PDT
Pre-Watershed Event
Sponsored by Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST)

Kate Marianchild, Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals among California's Oaks, presents a talk on "The Plants and Animals of Bay Area Oak Woodlands: An Intimate Overview."

For more information and POST's Zoom registration page:
http://www.katemarianchild.com/walks-talks-classes

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Friday, March 18, 2022, 7pm PDT
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival:
California Fire & Water:
A Climate Crisis Anthology Reading

Watershed 2022 opens with this exciting reading by six diverse contributors to California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, including Lisa Alvarez, Lee Herrick, Devi Laskar, Denise Low, George Yatchisin, and poet and anthology editor Molly Fisk. Hosted by Joyce Jenkins.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf-2qqDsuH9214Fr_kKR5oMZJWRwm9zxX

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Saturday, March 19, 2022, Noon-1pm PDT
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival:
Strawberry Creek Walk

Kirk Lumpkin and Chris Olander, River Light, poets, environmentalists, longtime Watershed organizers, read poetry by Strawberry Creek in Berkeley, with talk on Bearshit on the Trail: Essential Poems of Earth First! Anthology, edited by Dennis Fritzinger, plus creeks, native plants, environmental activism, and more. Sharon Coleman performs "EcoDance," choreographed to the poetry of Alison Hawthorne Deming.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctc-muqT8vH9PTcAZkeauwbTMGTlm6-lGh

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Saturday, March 19, 2022, 1:30-2:30pm PDT
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival:
On Trees & Poetry

Arborist, environmental activist, writer Joe Lamb, founder of the Borneo Project, in conversation with poet Benjamin Gucciardi, West Portal, founder of Soccer Without Borders.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuce6rrzssGdyv_IG7Qz2PcnwciCpOt5yj

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Saturday, March 19, 2022, 3pm-5pm PDT
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival:
Saturday Featured Readings

"Watershed: Writers, Nature, & Community: Photo Montage," various photographers. California Poets in the Schools K-12 students, with poet-teachers Maureen Hurley and Brennan DeFrisco. Lucille Lang Day, editor of Poetry & Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery, with readings by celebrated contributing poets Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at This Blue, Elizabeth Bradfield, Toward Antarctica, Ann Fisher-Wirth, The Bones of Winter Birds, The Ecopoetry Anthology, and Alison Hawthorne Deming, Stairway to Heaven, A Woven World. Host: Joyce Jenkins.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-Gprj4qHNXlK5EVYB2HYVrqwtAYolCG

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Sunday, March 20, 2022, 1pm-2:15pm PDT
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival:
We Are Nature Open Reading

"We Are Nature" Open Reading, with host Blake More, Point Arena Poet Laureate, who will also read from her poetry. A featured ecopoetry presentation by Santa Clara University EcoLiterature Senior Seminar students, Shenir Dennis, Jaden Fong, Mac Mann-Wood will open the program. Three-minute reading spots, please sign up in advance by emailing watershed@poetryflash.org. Write "WATERSHED OPEN READING" in the subject line; there will be "first come, first serve" last-minute sign-up opportunities in the Zoom Chatbox if we have spaces left. Poems on environmental justice, nature, eco-poetics, and more are most welcome.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sdO2vrD4qGtxatt9JA148C1QGGWWO4mNG

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Sunday, March 20, 2022, 3pm-5pm PDT
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival:
Sunday Featured Readings

"Watershed: Writers, Nature, & Community: Photo Montage." Archival photographs by Steven C Wilson. Poetry readings by Linda Hogan, A History of Kindness, Barbara Jane Reyes, Letters to a Young Brown Girl, Marsha de la O, Every Ravening Thing, Patti Trimble with musician Peter Whitehead, Lisa Rosenberg, A Different Physics, Caroline Goodwin, Old Snow, White Sun. Host: Joyce Jenkins.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoceitqTstGN3PuSEEJIeIqzmsyb6yxlEX

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Watershed Broadside

A poem broadside (hand-printed poster) of "Awake," a beautiful poem by Linda Hogan, has been pressure printed by Lisa Rappoport with real leaves and grasses for the 26th Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. Offered as a thank you for individual donations of $75 or more at https://poetryflash.org/give (by March 31), sales of the broadside support the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival and Poetry Flash. They are offered at $25. Please email watershed@poetryflash.org for details.

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Books by presenters are available at the online
WATERSHED POETRY FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP:
https://bookshop.org/shop/watershed

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River Village
Thanks to all who exhibited "in real life" in Civic Center Park, Berkeley, October 5, 2019. We hope to see you in person soon!

BAY NATURE
www.baynature.org

CALIFORNIA POETS IN THE SCHOOLS - CalPoets
californiapoets.org

ECOLOGY CENTER/BERKELEY FARMERS' MARKET
ecologycenter.org

THE HAIGHT ASHBURY LITERARY JOURNAL
haightashburyliteraryjournal.wordpress.com
[Journals can be bought digitally at http://www.0s-1s.com/haight-ashbury-literary-journal]

iNATURALIST
www.iNaturalist.org

JUANITA J. MARTIN, FIRST POET LAUREATE OF FAIRFIELD, CA
www.jmartinpoetwriter.com

LEFT MARGIN LIT
www.leftmarginlit.org

MARIN POETRY CENTER
www.marinpoetrycenter.org/blog

MILVIA STREET: ART AND LITERARY JOURNAL
www.berkeleycitycollege.edu/wp/english/milvia-street-club/milvia-street-art-and-literary-journal

NOMADIC PRESS
www.nomadicpress.org

OAKLAND ZOO
www.oaklandzoo.org

PEGASUS DOWNTOWN
www.pegasusbookstore.com

REED MAGAZINE
www.reedmag.org

RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH ART & POETRY INSPIRED BY THE NATURAL WORLD at SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA
www.stmarys-ca.edu/center-for-environmental-literacy/river-of-words/students

SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS
www.sixteenrivers.org

SUGARTOWN PUBLISHING
www.sugartownpublishing.com

ZAUM LITERARY MAGAZINE
zaumliterarymagazine.wordpress.com

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For more information: watershed@poetryflash.org, editor@poetryflash.org, (510)525-5476, (510)612-3958.

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Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is co-founded by Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97, and is a collaboration of the Watershed Coordinating Committee, Poetry Flash, and Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, in conjunction with Pegasus Books Downtown, and 100 Thousand Poets for Change.

Watershed logo: woodblock print by Shane Eagleton; color added by Mark Baldridge.

Thank you to the Berkeley Civic Arts Program, California Arts Council, and Alameda County Arts Commission for their support.