Bell House
Punderdome 3000 [http://www.punderdome.com/]Looking for something fun to do this week? Look no further. Hear about Edwin Frank’s new poetry collection, play some trivia, mingle with neighbors, or find out if you have what it takes to become a “Pun-master.” Check out the details on those
Allison Geller
Hafizah Geter. Photo courtesy Roots Poetry Series.“We’re going to start with some fucked-up childhood poems and move on to some fucked-up later life poems,” Melissa Ahart said [https://www.facebook.com/rootspoetryseries/timeline/story?ut=43&wstart=0&wend=1427871599&hash=-5714729558354365103&pagefilter=3]
425 McDonald Avenue
Photo courtesy Jill ReinierMany thanks to Jill Reiner for letting us know about this fantastic sounding event [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205523531146929&set=o.143224269148309&type=1&theater¬if_t=wall] from the Singing Winds that will be happening this Saturday, January
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Fix your bike, caffeinate you, make you a vegan grilled cheese — what can’t Red Lantern [http://www.redlanternbicycles.com] do? Tonight, Thursday, November 6, their list of skills grows to include “make your life more artful through the spoken word” with their Poetry on Wheels [http://www.redlanternbicycles.com/
joanna hoffman
After 10 years of spoken word competitions, 13th Street’s Joanna Hoffman [http://joannahoffman.wordpress.com/] decided to take a step back and focus on a less competitive outlet for her art. The culmination of this decision is her first full-length poetry collection, Running for Trap Doors [http://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.
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Neighbor Cristina [http://instagram.com/p/YyJj4PoDsV/] sends this awesome shot of Seraphina writing a Frost [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536] riff on Westminster and Cortelyou. Share your Ditmas Park photos by email at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/
Bus Stop
“A welcome street haiku on such a grey, windy morning,” said Kris Waldherr [http://www.kriswaldherr.com/] when she found this poem [https://twitter.com/kriswaldherr/status/312204980297809920/photo/1] tucked into a bus stop schedule on Foster Ave this morning. Share your Ditmas Park photos by email at editor@
handball
Source: Brian Auer/FlickrIn honor of the 52nd annual United States Handball Association Championship held in Coney Island, a classic poem of Brighton Beach’s handball sensation Irving Feldman was posted on the World Players of Handball Message Board. [http://wphl.websitetoolbox.com/post/The-Handball-Players-of-Brighton-Beach-5953819] Here’s the first stanza:
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It’s always great when our artists decide to riff off each other. The idea for the month’s series came to Kasia after reading something our first Open Corner artist [http://emmaassin.com/] wrote. Check it out below. May artist: Kasia Nikhamina Title: SWARM The New York Times | Thursday,
alika smekhov
Father and daughter duo, Veniamin and Alika Smekhov. Source: ShorefrontY.orgAs part of its fourth Annual Summer Nights Festival 2011, the Shorefront YM-YWHA, 3300 Coney Island Avenue, will be presenting “Twelve Months of Tango,” a poetry-musical performance featuring the renown father and daughter duo, Veniamin and Alika Smekhov, and the
Borough President
The writing contest is held in conjunction with the Brooklyn Book Festival. Ready, set… “write” on! Borough President Marty Markowitz is reaching out to all of Brooklyn’s high schoolers (high school students attending school in Brooklyn or who live in Brooklyn) to participate in his Sixth Annual “Brooklyn Lit
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Tomorrow (December 12) the Sheepshead Bay Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library will be hosting music and poetry for your enjoyment! Yelena Litinskaya, Liana Alveradova, and Irina Aks will make you laugh with their humorous poems and Maksim Grachev will tug at your heart with opera arias and Russian romances!