Unless otherwise noted, canoeing events depart from 19th St. off of 3rd Ave. Walking tours start from different locations and bicycle tours depart from Brooklyn Borough Hall. Other events occur inside or outside our boathouse, at 165 2nd St. / off Bond St.
[ Rain 30 min. Prior to start time may cancel event and dates +30 days in the future are subject to change ]
A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading
May 19 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the scheduled Sundays, from 1:30 to 3:30, up to four featured poets will read for 10 to 15 minutes each.
The readings will be followed by open mic time limited to ten readers (one poem no longer than 3 minutes) who have signed up the day of the reading on a first come basis.
Reading will be outdoors at the Gowanus open shoreline and we invite you to engage with the emerging Gowanus Canal habitat as we witness the EPA conduct their SuperFUN/d cleanup program. Event may move to inside the boathouse if it begins to rain or we want to escape the summer heat. If other activity is occurring on the street or esplanade, event may move inside.
Participation is free but we encourage donations to sustain the efforts of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, an advocacy stewardship organization who has been representing neighborhood interests for over two decades.
May
5 Safia Jama, Ruh Danon, Elaine Sexton, JoAnne McFarland
19 Willa Schneberg, Kristine Esser Slentz, Silvia Thomas, John Leo
June
2 Cheryl Fish, Anton Anton Yakovlev, Leah Umansky, KC Trommer
9 Sarah Arvio, Dennis Nurkse, Mervyn Taylor, Estha Weiner
23 JoAnna Solifren, Sara Marron, Arden Levin, Jason Koo
30 Scott Hightower, Sara Sarai, Brad Vogel, Dan Kaplan
July
14 Broadstone Books: Myra Malkin, Meredith Trede, Stephanie Laterza, Linda Russo
21 Dan Nester, Carley Moore, David Francis
28 Gerry LaFamina, Maddie Barnes Sara Wallace, Sarah Butowski
August
4 John Deming, Mirada Beeson
11 Jordan Franklin Matthew Thornburn, Alex Long
18 Myra Shapiro & TBD
25 Linda Lerner, Linda kleinbub, Ron Kolm, Bill Considine
September
8 Abigail Welhouse Jiwon Choi, Austin Alexsis, Karen Neuberg
15 Michael Broder, Indran Amirthanayagam
22 Tina Cane, Zoe Ryder White, Caitlin McDonnell, Denver Butson
29 Neil Shepard, Hilary Sideris, Kristina Anderson, Anthony Cappo
October
6 Lisa Andrews, Lisa Badner, Karen Heldebrand, Grace G
13 Broadstone Books: Susana H Case, Lynn Mcgee, Amy Barone, Margo Stever
