1st Berkeley Poetry Festival 1998
Sat. & Sun. Oct. 16 &17, 1998
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Audience listening to a Featured Reader at the Outdoor Sculpture Gardern, Berkeley Art Museum. Poets Julia Vinograd, Lucille Lang Day , Jack & Adele Foley are in the front row.
Audience
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The 1st Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival was a two day event. The program hosted Featured Readers from the Bay Area and Sacramento in the George Gund Theater and the Outdoor Sculpture Garden. An ongoing Open Mike was held in the Conference Room and a Poet's Exchange Table was in the lobby.

Featured Readers
in order of appearance

Kim Sugioki, Kirk Lumpkin, Charles Ellik, Thea Hillman, Craig Easley, Jeanne Powell, Sparrow 13, John Rowe, Jehana Wedgwood, Teddy Weiler, Gail Mitchell, Jane 69, Jon Greene/JR. Brady, Paul Watsky, Mark Schwartz, Marsha Campbell, Tulsi Seidman, Jeffrey Leong, Penina Taesali, Giovanni Moro, Jesse Beagle, Tony Jonick, Maggi Meyer, Tim Nuveen, Louis Cuneo, Barbara Michelman, Rita Bregrman, Joan Gatten, Mark States, Omolara, Russell Gonzaga, Bob Randolph, Hodee Edwards, Max Schwartz, Artura Montecon, Gaya Jenkins, Natica Angilly, Jimmy Lyons, Jack & Adelle Foley, Jennifer Stone, Julia Vinograd, Ivan Arguelles, Richard Dixi Cohn, Claire Simons


Ten year old poet Claire Simons is greeted by poet and radio host Jack Foley as her father Bill looks on. Richard "Dixi" Cohn reads his poems. Mary Rudge and Jesse Beagle pour over their work. Edwin Massey Jr. toasts all poets from all times.
Jack Foley talking to Claire Simons Richard "Dixi" Cohen Mary Rudge & Jesse Beagle Edwin Massey Jr.
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