Hear Ye: Poets & Writers To Read Saturday, July 11 At The E. 4th Street Community Garden

This Saturday, July 11th at 3:30 pm, the East Fourth Street Community Garden welcomes all to a free reading by four Brooklyn poets and writers. On a mid-July afternoon, listen to these authors read their works and expect to be beguiled by their words, their voices and the lush verdant space. The E. 4th Street Community Garden is located mid-block behind the wrought iron fence, between Caton Avenue and Ft. Hamilton Parkway.

“Come and enjoy a wide variety of perspectives, metaphors, prisms, and rhythms in our beautiful summer garden,” encourages the Garden’s events planners. Here’s who is reading:

Regina Porter is an award-winning writer whose works have been presented at Playwrights Horizons, The Joseph Papp Theater, New York Stage & Film, The Woolly Mammoth Theater, and Horizons Theater Company. Her writing has been profiled in “Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History & Criticism.” Porter recently completed her first novel and will attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop this fall.

Joel Shatzky, is a poet, playwright, novelist, blogger, and musician, as well as a Professor Emeritus at SUNY Cortland. His plays have been produced in New York City, London, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. A prolific author, Shatzky has written fourteen published books and teaches at Kingsborough Community College.

John Rearick is a writer, an English teacher, and college counselor. He has published two books on mythology for young readers and has read his poetry at a variety of venues in New York. Currently he is working on a novel about World War II and its emotional impact on soldiers and their children.

Betsy Housten is a Brooklyn-based poet and massage therapist who writes the annual zine You Know Better, exploring queer life in Brooklyn. Her work has been anthologized in “We’ll Never Have Paris: Greatest Hits.” Betsy has headlined readings at venues all over NYC, including the infamous Women’s Poetry Jam at Bluestockings Radical Bookstore, where she also curates the fabulous zine section.