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8th Annual Gowanus Dawn Reading

Our 8th annual Gowanus Dawn Reading! We’ll proclaim poetry from Julian Talamantez Brolaski’s “gowanus atropolis” in canoes on the Gowanus Canal!
Readers: 7:00 am report time at Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club’s Bunker Launch Site at 2 19th St, Brooklyn. To request spot as a canoe reader in advance, contact Brad Vogel : Brad.Vogel[@]gmail.com.
Audience: 7:45 am arrival – Follow us on social media and check back here as the date gets closer for specific bridge location amidst superfund cleanup changes. Watch and listen from a bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Dredgers Captain Emeritus and poet Brad Vogel and performer and vocalist Melody Bates lead the crew as they get medieval on Brolaski’s sludgy verse.
