The 27th Annual Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival returns to its first live, in-person event since 2019!

Highlights:

Strawberry Creek Walk, 10 am, free
Starting Place: southeast corner of Oxford at Center, on the edge of the Berkeley campus
Featuring: wildlife biologist May Khosla, and poets Chris Olander, Tureeda Mikell, Gene Berson, Theresa Whitehill, and Rooja Mohassessy

Festival Main Stage: Noon to 4:30 pm, free
Place: Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park, Martin Luther King, Jr. Way at Center Street, Berkeley, CA
Featuring poets & writers: Robert Hass, Forrest Gander, Genny Lim, Barry Finnerty, Aya de Leon, Susan Cohen, John Curl, and Kirk Lumpkin, along with the Strawberry Creek Walk poets Olander, Berson, Mikell, Mohassessy, and Whitehill

For more information: https://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=watershed_2022_inperson
info@poetryflash.org, (510) 525-5476, (510) 612-3958
A collaboration of co-founder Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate 1995-1997 • Poetry Flash • Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers’ Market • Pegasus Books Downtown • 100 Thousand Poets for Change