Parachute Literary Arts

Gillian and her mother, Blanche were among the 20 or so people who joined our Coney Island poetry writing workshop during the December Evening for Educators at the Brooklyn Museum. Here is a poem written by Gillian based on a prompt I gave and written after Abe Feinstein's photo "Astroman at Coney Island's Astroland": When I was looking for you, You, whom I needed as a distraction, You were nowhere to be found. Your lack of color made me more focused, Things became simplified. I could read your eyes to mean whatever I wanted, Your mouth never needed to move.

Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground sing Coney Island Steeplechase Another New York poet who wrote about Coney Island....

Photo (c) Amanda Deutch Tupac lives! Maya is one of the students in Parachute's afterschool writing workshop with the YWCA at Rachel Carson HS in Coney Island. We have started a poetry lending library there! She has been reading the books from our lending library. You can see Maya's poems and some words from the other girls in the workshop here

Parachute: the Coney Island Performance Festival 2012, Day 2, a set on Flickr.

Parachute: the Coney Island Performance Festival 2012, Day 1, a set on Flickr.

Parachute Festival poetry workshop led by Patricia Spears Jones, October 2012

Parachute Flickrs in the dark.