Big news this week at Berl's! First of all, we are
featured today on the Brooklyn Flea web site, with lots of background about the shop as well as a couple new poems by the two of us! The Flea has been very good to us and we're so grateful for all their support.
Secondly, this weekend we're pulling special double duty; not only will we be out as usual in Williamsburg on the waterfront on Sunday 7/24, but we're also going to be out in force all day on Saturday 7/23 at the
Popsickle Poetry Festival at the Gowanus Ballroom, 55 9th St., starting at 1 pm and going well into the evening. We're very excited to be part of this unique event, which features many, many great poets and presses and should be totally rollicking.
Next week, speaking of Berl's special events, we will be making the pilgrimage to Governor's Island all weekend for the
New York Poetry Festival. We'll keep you posted about this as we make our way over there for the event and for the first time Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop will exist beyond the borders of the Borough of Brooklyn (though we'll be just across the beautifully named Buttermilk Channel).
UPDATE: Thanks very much to the staff of the
Harriet blog at the Poetry Foundation for the kind shout out to Field and White aka Berl's! Inspired by both articles' mentioning the discussion of my grandfather Berl, I was googling this morning and found this
interesting interview with the architect who worked with my grandfather, Harmon "Berl" White, building award-winning progressive, modernist houses in the 1950s.
