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.