[BHS etree] EVENTS: Ginsberg Poetry Garden Reading - April 28

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ANNUAL OUTDOOR READING MARKS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
IN BERKELEY'S ALLEN GINSBERG POETRY GARDEN

Berkeley High community--bring your poetry/spoken word to the annual
Open Mic poetry reading, in honor of National Poetry Month.  This
year's event features Spoken Word Poet-Writer-Teacher 'G' Reyes (and
marks the bicentennial of American Poet and Teacher Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow).

Saturday, April 28
2-4 PM
Berkeley Arts Magnet School Poetry Garden
Milvia @ Lincoln Sts.
Berkeley

Background on the Poetry Garden:

A little more than 50 years ago, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg penned
portions of his controversial, but celebrated, poem "Howl!" while
living in a  rose-covered cottage at 1624 Milvia Street--opposite what
is now the Berkeley Arts Magnet/John Greenleaf Whittier School and
site of a poetry garden dedicated to Ginsberg two years after his
death in 1997. The garden is the venue for an annual Open Mic poetry
reading, held the last Saturday of national Poetry Month. 

The garden showcases the writing of students, their families,
teachers, friends and neighbors--all have a chance to share a favorite
poem or two out loud, in the tradition of coffeehouse readings that
took root in the Bay Area in the 1950s. In 2000, the Berkeley
Landmarks Preservation Commission acknowledged the garden and
neighborhood's connection with the Beats as part of its Historical
Plaque Project.