Celebrate Writers, Nature & Community

Program Schedule WATERSHED Environmental Poetry Festival Saturday, September 8, 2001 • Noon to 5:30 pm • Free Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Civic Center Park • Berkeley MLK Jr. Way at Center • One Block West from Downtown Berkeley BART Strawberry Creek Walk • 10 am at Oxford & Center Streets 10:00 Strawberry Creek Walk begins at Center and Oxford Streets and proceeds down Center to the Park 11:30 Planting of Creek Banners at Martin Luther King Park 12:00 River Totem Reading - Mammals Patti Trimble • Adam David Miller Abena Songbird • Will Staple Be Herrera & Dr. Sax • Mario Hill Chris Olander 12:30 Robert Hass with student poets River of Words California Poets in the Schools 1:00 Ecology Center Kirk Lumpkin - Ecology Center Stephen Evans - COB Conservation & Energy Program Nettie Hoge - The Utility Reform Network 1:15 We Are Nature Open Reading #1 Slots slected by lottery day of event. Sign up at Poetry Flash tent! 1:30 Grito Serpentino 2:00 Maxine Hong Kingston with Vets Ted Sexauer • Keith Mather • Jim Janko 2:15 Francisco Alarcón 2:30 River Totem Reading - Birds Maria Melendez • Adam David Miller Be Herrera & Dr. Sax • Maya Khosla Dan Bellm • Will Staple Chris Olander 3:00 EcoCity Builders Richard Register - Heart of the City Project Kirstin Miller - Ecocity Amendment Joanna Macy - Visualizing City Waterways Janet Byron - Daylighting Strawberry Creek 3:15 We Are Nature Open Reading #2 Slots slected by lottery day of event. Sign up at Poetry Flash tent! 3:30 Ecology Center Tim Stroshane - Spillway Daniel Berman - Who Owns the Sun 3:45 River Totem Reading - Rivers Dona Nieto • Dan Bellm • Maria Melendez Will Staple • Be Herrera & Dr. Sax Mario Hill • Patti Trimble Chris Olander 4:00 Earll Kingston as John Wesley Powell 4:15 Robert Hass 4:30 Maxine Hong Kingston 4:45 Gary Snyder emcees Richard Silberg • Jack Foley with Adelle 20001 WATERSHED Environmental Poetry Festival is a collaboration of Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate 1995-97 Poetry Flash EcoCity Builders Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market with support from The Watershed Keepers - our individual donors & volunteers Zellerbach Family Fund • East Bay Express • EBMUD Civic Arts Program, City of Berkeley This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant received from The James Irvine Foundation Acme Bread Co. • Andronico's Market • Art Store Berkeley Bowl Produce • Bettes-To-Go • Cheese Board • Fetzer Vineyards Golden Pacific Brewing • Grace Baking • Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant Monterey Market • Peaberry's Coffee & Teas • Saul's Delicatessen Trader Joe's • Voila the Juice Company • Whoke Foods