A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading
September 20
A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the scheduled Sundays, from 1:30 to 3:30, up to four featured poets will read for 10 to 15 minutes each. Gerry reads poetry at the canal The readings will be followed by open mic time limited to ten readers (one poem no longer than 3 minutes) who have signed up the day of the reading on a first come basis. Reading will be outdoors at the Gowanus open shoreline and we invite you to engage with the emerging Gowanus Canal habitat as we witness the EPA conduct their SuperFUN/d cleanup program. Event may move to inside the boathouse if it begins to rain or we want to escape the summer heat. If other activity is occurring on the street or esplanade, event may move inside. Participation is free but we encourage donations to sustain the efforts of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, an advocacy stewardship organization who has been representing neighborhood interests for over two decades. May17 Linda Lerner, Patricia Carrigton, Abigail Welhouse, Bill Lessard June7 Susan Michele, Gregory Crosby, Melinda Wilson, Dennis Nurkse14 Donna Masini, Richard Smith, Maria Lisella, Elizabeth T Gray Jr.28 Elaine Sexton, Karen Hildebrand, Don Yorty, Judith Lee Herbert July12 David Katz, Estha Wiener, Shean Nevin, Katherine Swett19 Sarah Wallace, Ashley Mabitt, Zoe White, and Michael T. Young26 Broadstone Books: S.H. Case, Myra Malkin, Vera Salter, Stephanie Laterza, David Mills, Lucia Cherclu August2 Jiwon Choi, Amy Holman, Miranda Beeson, Sarah Sarai9 Kimiko Hahn, Joanne Solfrian, Sam Cha, Mervyn Taylor16 KGB: John Demming, Selena Spier, Tyler Allen, Penny Susan Lewis, Jada Gordon23 Karen Neuberg, Scott Hightower, Indran Amirthanayagam, Neil Shepard30 Titanic September13 Hilary Sideris, Tom Sleigh, Austin Alexis, Kristine Esser-Slentz20 Joanne McFarland, Ruth Danon, Brad Vogel, David Formanek27 Amy Lemmon, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, Richard Levine, Nicole Callihan October4 Lisa Andrews, Lisa Badner, Arden Levine, Anthony Capo11 Broadstone Books: Amy Barone, Margo Taft Stever, Billy Cancel, Mary Moloney
