Brownstone Poets is taking a hiatus during April because we are supporting the Ft. Greene Park Poetry Festival for National Poetry Month from Saturdays, April 16, 23, and 30. Your attendance will count toward the anthology. Admission is free. Brownstone Poets is taking a hiatus during April because we are supporting the Fort Greene Park Poetry Festival for National Poetry Month from Saturdays, April 16, 23, and 30. Your attendance will count toward the anthology. Admission is free. It’s an open mic, so bring your poetry to the festival and take a workshop class as well.
(A suggested donation of $5 would be greatly appreciated. The easiest way is through PayPal at: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO
Your contribution keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features.)
Our regular program will be back on Saturday, May 28 on Zoom with featured poets Carolyne Lee Wright, Jose Mobili, and Megha Sood. We will start promoting this reading early in May.
I’m so happy to be part of this festival to be held every Saturday in April at the beautiful Ft. Greene Park in my borough of Brooklyn and to feature on April 16 with Robert Gibbons and Kim Brandon.
A BIG Shout Out to Monik Walters, Executive Director of the Fort Greene Park Conservancy, and Roxanne Hoffman for coordinating this event, and glad that I am able volunteer my services.
Every poetry event starts at 3pm and ends around 6pm (depending on how long the open mic lasts).
Layout: Eastern Wing Lawn and area across from the visitor’s center walkway
Take the A, or F to Jay Street Metro Tech
the Q or R to DeKalb Avenue
the 2, 3, 4, 5, R to Court Street
Head Northwest to the park
Microphone and Speaker
Some chairs and open Lawn Space but non-workshop attendees are encouraged to bring picnic blankets for seating
SCHEDULE
April 16th
MC: Roxanne Hoffman & Monik Walters
Readers:
- Patricia Carragon
- Robert Gibbons
- Kim Brandon
Workshop Leader: Jordan Franklin
Workshop Topic: Pop Culture & Poetry
Open Mic
Schedule for the rest of April:
April 23rd
MC: Roxanne Hoffman & Monik Walters
Readers
- James Dean Rivera
- Ketriana Yvonne
- Pauline Findlay
Workshop: Felix Guzman & Dr. Faizen Syed
Workshop Topic: Poetry Saved My Life
Open Mic
April 30th
MC: Roxanne Hoffman & Monik Walters
Keynote: Patricia Spears Jones
Monik Walters reading Richard Wright
Open Mic
Patricia Carragon's Blog: Words Give Me the Will to Write 
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