Ft. Greene Park Summer Literary Festival

I went to this festival last year and it was very nice. You had six-year old poets reading their work alongside Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka. And after the readings, both Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka were just chatting it up. It's a nice outdoor event.

2006 Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival
Saturday, August 19th, 4:30 PM
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn

Join us for a reading featuring Jhumpa Lahiri, Sapphire, Jacqueline Johnson and Lorenzo Pace reading alongside young people from our free workshops in Fort Greene Park! Marlies Yearby, MC. Bring a picnic!

Drawing upon the rich and diverse literary history of Fort Greene Park and its surrounding neighborhoods, The Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival provides a means for self-expression and creativity for area young people, and builds community through arts and literature. The Lit Fest consists of a six-week series of free Saturday creative writing workshops for young people and an end-of-summer reading featuring literary icons reading alongside our young writers. 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.

The Lit Fest is a project of NY Writers Coalition, the Fort Greene Park Conservancy, Akashic Books and Griot Reading Programs, with additional support from The Walt Whitman Project and BOMB Magazine.