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DESCRIPTION:If you aren't out canvassing for the election, please join Poetry Flash, 
 the Ecology Center, and EcoCity Builders for a Day of the Dead 
 spirit-raising gathering, with diverse poets reading from their works and 
 responding to the state of the planet. Please tell your friends, spread the 
 word:\n\nWatershed Environmental Poetry Festival\nBerkeley Civic Center 
 Park, downtown Berkeley\nAlongside the Berkeley Farmers' Market\nSaturday, 
 November 1, noon to 4:00\n\nThere will be chairs to sit on in the park! (In 
 case of rain, the Festival will be moved to Berkeley City College 
 Auditorium & Atrium, 2050 Center Street, downtown Berkeley.)\n\nPoetry 
 should be able to comprehend the earth,\n - something of the earth beyond 
 our human dramas.\n                                                    
 ---Robert Hass\n\nWe are Nature Open Mic at Noon, slots chosen by drawing 
 at event\nfollowed by Poetry, Music, and Exhibits\n\nFeaturing:\n* Pulitzer 
 Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Robert Hass, Time and 
 Materials\n* Brenda Hillman, Cascadia and the forthcoming Practical 
 Water\n* Jane Hirshfield, After\n* California Poet Laureate Al Young, 
 Something About the Blues, with Dan Robbins on bass\n* Joseph Lease, Broken 
 World\n* Camille Dungy, What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for 
 Poison\n* poet/percussionist Avotcja with Eugene Warren on bass\n* Sonoma 
 County Poet Laureate Mike Tuggle, Absolute Elsewhere\n* poet/eco-educator 
 Chris Olander; performance poets Grace Fae and Grace Tea\n* Poetry Flash 
 editor/poet Richard Silberg\n* Robert Hass presents student/youth poets 
 from River of Words and California Poets in the Schools; poet/translator 
 John Oliver Simon presents bilingual student poets from Poetry Inside 
 Out\n\nEnvironmental updates: Kirstin Miller (EcoCity Builders) presents 
 Peter Berg, Planet Drum; "Daylighting" discussion on restoring Strawberry 
 Creek in downtown Berkeley, and Kirk Lumpkin (Ecology Center/Berkeley 
 Farmers' Market) presents Eugene Cordero, Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out 
 of Global Warming.\n\nExhibitors include Manic D Press, Heyday Books, 
 Ecology Center Book Tent, Tea Party magazine, California Poets in the 
 Schools, Sixteen Rivers Press, River of Words, Planet Drum, City of 
 Berkeley Environmental Services & more!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/27/18546880.php
SUMMARY:Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
LOCATION:Berkeley Civic Center Park \n2151 MLK Jr. Way (bet Allston Way + Center 
 St)\nBerkeley CA 94704 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/27/18546880.php
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