Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival 2016

21st Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival “Stands Up for the Earth” with dynamic readings over thirty poets and writers, including Jane Hirshfield, “The Beauty”; Alison Hawthorne Deming, “Stairway to Heaven” and “Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit”; Juliana Spahr, “That Winter the Wolf Came”; Pireeni Sundaralingam; Wes “Scoop” Nisker, “You Are Not Your Fault and Other Revelations”; more to be announced; California Poets in the Schools K-12 students read led by poet-teachers John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley; Creek Poets reading features Nevada City poet/eco-educator Chris Olander, poet/biologist Maya Khosla, “Keel Bone”; Judy Halebsky, “Tree Line”; Katherine Hastings, “Nighthawks”; Bill Vartnaw; emcees 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. Presented by Poetry Flash, co-sponsored by the Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers’ Market, Moe’s Books; wheelchair accessible.To exhibit or table, for more information, visit Poetryflash.org, call (510) 525-5476, or e-mail: info@poetryflash.org.