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An all-ages family friendly Walt Whiman Birthday event, with a community reading, participatory crafts & book signing

Join Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop and Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman for a festive, all-ages bicentennial celebration of the Bard of Brooklyn at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Saturday, November 16 , 1-3 PM 141 Front Street DUMBO.

We’ll be joined by authors KAREN KARBIENER & BRIAN SELZNICK who will sign their books Live Oak, with Moss and Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman

We’ll make mail art using the NEW WALT WHITMAN STAMP

We’ll join in a reading of “CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY”

Earlier Event: November 15
Rutgers Creative Writing Faculty Reading
Later Event: November 19
FALL CLASS