The DUMBO Arts Festival returns this weekend, with plenty of treats for eye, ear, and mind, and perhaps even for your backside if you choose to perch on one of the rocks upholstered by Elizabeth Demaray, an artist and Rutgers professor with a background in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, shown here working on a project […]
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Busy Sunday in Brooklyn Heights: Summer Space and Book Festival
Karl is on hand with cam to catch all the action, from opera by Martha Cardona Theater to the BHA’s Dog Show to palmistry to yoga to great photos at Summer Space on Montague Street, then to the Brooklyn Book Festival on Borough Hall Plaza, starting with literary troubadours covering the 1961 Tokens hit “The […]
BHS Hosts 9/11 Program
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), in conjunction with the Brooklyn Community Foundation, will mark the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks this Sunday, September 11, starting at 2:00 p.m., with a program on the topic “Doing Good in a Post 9/11 World”. The Foundation has supplied these details: […]
Poet Laureate Philip Levine Reads a Poem About an Incident on the Promenade
Philip Levine, newly named Poet Laureate of the United States and a Detroit native, now divides his time between Brooklyn and California. The New York Times has a video of him reading his poem about a strange non-encounter while he was strolling on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade several years ago. See it here (there’s an […]
BHS Poetry Reading Tomorrow Evening
Tomorrow evening (Friday, April 1), starting at 7:00, the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will hold the first in what is promised to be a series of poetry readings. This reading, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Girl, is presented in cooperation with A.I.R. Gallery and Cave Canem, and will […]
Writer Ponders Walt Whitman as Social Media Pitchman
Our pals at W.W. Norton ponder what it would be like if Brooklyn Heights legend/poet/newspaper guy Walt Whitman was alive today and writing for Groupon, the social media deals thingy. For one thing, he’d WOULD SO be rockin’ that hipster haircut in the photo here and most likely ride his bike to work. And yes […]
Poetry Event at Park Plaza Diner Saturday
Brownstone Poets will present a poetry reading, with open mic, this Saturday starting at 2:30 p.m. at the Park Plaza Diner, 220 Cadman Plaza West (at the eastern end of Pineapple Walk). Poets featured at this event are G.P.A. the Poetic Unsub (photo above) and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Admission is $3; food and drinks extra. […]
Leon Freilich’s Ode to Brooklyn Heights
Poet Leon Freilich rhapsodizes about our neighborhood in “The Streets of Brooklyn Heights”, on open salon.
Poet John Ashbery to be Honored at Book Festival Sunday
The distingushed New York poet John Ashbery will be honored with the “BoBi” award at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, to be held at Borough Hall Park this Sunday, September 12. At 1:00 p.m. Sunday, Ashbery and renowned Brooklyn novelist Paul Auster will have a conversation on the stage of the St. Francis College auditorium, […]
Mr. Junkersfeld’s Take on the Whitman Festival
Mr. J. arrived at Pier 1 for Thursday’s Whitman event before I did, and saw some of the earlier acts. Clearly underwhelmed, he went to video some skilled piano players further north on the pier.
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