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’TALK’ IS CHEAP

By Lisa J. Curtis
The Brooklyn Paper

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Enjoy a free evening of readings by contributors to the NY Writers Coalition’s first anthology, "If These Streets Could Talk," on Tuesday in Park Slope.

The Hanson Place-based not-for-profit organization, helmed by Executive Director Aaron Zimmerman, has been offering free creative writing workshops throughout the city, including Bedford-Stuyvesant, Park Slope and Fort Greene, for the last five years. This paperback is a collection of fiction and poetry from the workshops’ participants.

The fruits of their labors confront birth and death and everything in between. Judie David’s poem "Wings No Passport" reads: "I arrived without fanfare, also without fortune/ Being born was my parents’ idea" while Nelson Figueroa’s "Out of the Chamber" opens: "I have AIDS/ Death looms near/ Basic situations/ Take on perverse interpretations/ Strapped down on an MRI sled/ Apprehensions, visions of cremation - hell fires -/ Form in my pre-procedure/ Countdown to God knows/ What they are looking for."

Contributors to "If These Streets Could Talk: Fiction & Poetry from NY Writers Coalition" (NY Writers Coalition Press, $15) will read on Dec. 5 at 7:30 pm at the Community Bookstore (143 Seventh Ave. at Garfield Street in Park Slope). For more information, call (718) 783-3075 or visit the Web site www.nywriterscoalition.org.

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