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To
make a donation to Watershed June
2009 Dear
Friend of Watershed, Our fourteenth annual
Watershed Environmental Poetry
Festival will be held on
September 26 in Berkeley's Civic
Center Park. Please join us!
Featured this year are
outstanding poets, writers, and
artists concerned about the
"State of the
Planet"&emdash;poets Marilyn
Chin, Arthur Sze, Carol Moldaw,
and nature writer David Mas
Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach:
Four Seasons on My Family
Farm. Also on stage
poet/eco-educator Chris Olander,
Poetry Flash editor/poet Richard
Silberg, K-12 student poets from
River of Words, California Poets
in the Schools, and Poetry Inside
Out. There will also be a We Are
Nature open mic as well as
eco-updates from Ecocity Builders
and the Ecology Center. The traditional pre-festival
Strawberry Creek Walk will begin
the celebration at 10 a.m. just
inside the UC Berkeley campus at
Oxford and Center Streets. You're
invited to join our featured
readers and environmentalists for
a short hike along Strawberry
Creek from the UC Campus through
downtown Berkeley, tracing the
route of the creek as it tunnels
beneath the heart of the city to
the site of the festival. Along
the way, there will be poetry
readings and presentations on
"daylighting" and restoring the
Creek. It is essential that the
Watershed Festival remains free
and public, encouraging diversity
by providing equal access to all
members of the community. Your
support is needed to help cover
the event's expenses. Each year,
we produce a letterpress
broadside of a poem by one of our
featured readers. Our slection
will be posted soon. Please
send your tax-edeuctible donation
to: Watershed Thank
you for your support, |
