Saturday, August 21
The 6th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival
Fort Greene Park
Fort Greene Park
3-5 PM
The 6th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival will present a free outdoor reading on August 21st at 3:00 PM featuring young writers (seven to eighteen-year-olds) reading alongside six poets who have appeared at the annual Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica and in the anthology So Much Things to Say: Kwame Dawes, Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Carl Hancock Rux, Patricia Smith, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor. The Master of Ceremonies will be Laurie Cumbo, director of the acclaimed Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA). This exciting event brings several generations of writers together to build on the rich literary traditions of the neighborhoods surrounding beautiful Fort Greene Park.
The Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival is presented by NY Writers Coalition, Akashic Books, GTHQ and the Fort Greene Park Conservancy, with additional support from Greenlight Bookstore and The Walt Whitman Project.
More information visit http://www.nywriterscoalition.org/
