Young writers will team with established poets at annual literary festival in Fort Greene Park (photo courtesy www.who-will-kiss-the-pig.blogspot.com)
Fort Greene Park monument
Washington Park between Dekalb and Myrtle Aves.
Saturday, August 21, free, 3:00
www.nywriterscoalition.org
The sixth annual Fort Green Park Summer Literary Festival, sponsored by the New York Writers Coalition, will take place on Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn, where young boys and girls between the ages of seven and seventeen, who have participated in six weeks of creative writing workshops, will give a free outdoor reading, alongside Calabash International Literary Festival poets Kwame Dawes, Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Carl Hancock Rux, Patricia Smith, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor. As explained in its mission statement, “The Lit Fest honors the power of the written word to build inclusiveness and give voice to the thoughts and experiences of everyone, not just the privileged and powerful.”