1st Berkeley Poetry Festival 1998 - Poetry Slam, Open Mike, Open Mike Directory, Private Reading Studio, Poet's Exchange Table.html

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.

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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.

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