Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival

Get Down with Poetry at Saturday Downtown Berkeley Farmers’ Market 10/1/16

September 20, 2016 by Ecology Center

The weather has turned perfect for spending a Saturday in the park in Berkeley – just in time for special events to enrich your Farmers’ Market experience. On October 1st the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival offers a celebration of words, writers, and the environment. Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass, poet and essayist Jane… Read more »

Farmers’ Market Events Coming Up: Stringband Contest & Cooking Demo 9/19, Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival 9/26/15

September 16, 2015 by Ecology Center

There are back-to-back weekends of music, poetry, and of course, food at the Saturday Downtown Berkeley Farmers’ Markets. This Saturday, September 19th, the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention brings the String Band Contest to the park, with over 20 acts competing for a bag of Farmers’ Market tokens. Free to enter, and free to listen!… Read more »

Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, 9/28/13

September 24, 2013 by Ecology Center

“Stand Up for the Earth” with Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Gary Snyder and Robert Hass, with Brenda Hillman, Matthew Zapruder, Brian Teare, Ann Fisher-Wirth (The Ecopoetry Anthology), giovanni singleton, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Barbara Jane Reyes, Mary Mackey, John Shoptaw, Alan Soldofsky, California Poets in the Schools, River of Words, Poetry Inside Out (K-12 Student Poets), The… Read more »

Watershed Poetry Festival this Saturday, 9/29/12

September 27, 2012 by Ecology Center

This annual event will be back in Civic Center Park, adjacent to our Saturday Farmers’ Market. This year’s festival is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Callenbach, a writer and long time member of the Ecology Center. Activities for the day include poetry readings by U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman,… Read more »

Poets, Writers, and Music at Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival This Saturday

October 1, 2010 by Ecology Center

The Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival will take place this Saturday, October 2, from noon to 4:40 in Civic Center Park. The stellar lineup of poets includes Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Al Young, David Meltzer, and Camille Dungy. There will be readings from student poets, music by Barry Finnerty’s Jazz Roots Trio, and… Read more »