OFFICIAL FLYER 🚨Celebrate Earth Day this year by showing up for an important cause: Save Graniteville Wetlands in Staten Island from being developed into a @BJsWholesale Join 50+ organizations & hundreds of community members on 4/24/21 in #StatenIsland 🌎#SaveGranitevilleWetands
TOMORROW: @gannonme and @KevinLarimer will lead a discussion on writing as an act of generative good. They'll be joined by @ndennis_benn, Annie Hwang, @mtaeckens, and Jamia Wilson.
The book: https://t.co/YrFZDSazm4
Hosted by @Center4Fiction: https://t.co/r5y7muJHXu
We are readers at Borough Hall and we love partnering with those who share this passion.
@BNBuzz's Holiday Book Drive encourages customers to donate books to designated non-profits. This year they're be collecting books for our Readers Are Leaders program and for @linc_nyc.
Lara Vapnyar was on the show this morning to talk about DIVIDE ME BY ZERO--the intersections of love and math, the boundaries between writer and character, and her fascination with Staten Island.
https://t.co/L3XBxABs6n
@Tin_House #laravapnyar#dividemebyzero#writing#author
Seven years ago today, #hurricanesandy hit #StatenIsland and I spoke with @ElizabethaRush about how residents adapted after the storm, about coastal wetlands, rising sea levels, glaciers, poetry, and so much more
https://t.co/kEswsmnMJJ #sealevelrise#climatechange#nyc
Over 600 Staten Islanders sold their homes (to be demolished) after #HurricaneSandy so that the land could return to coastal wetland. @ElizabethaRush was on the show earlier this month with their story:
https://t.co/kEswsmnMJJ
#sandymemories#sealevelrise#climatechange#author
Lara Vapnyar will read from her forthcoming novel this Friday 9/20 at my @BKBF event at @MakerspaceNYC in Staten Island (the borough she called home for 15 yrs). https://t.co/Uaousft0V5 #laravapnyar @Tin_House #StatenIsland#NYC#BKBF
Be my live audience 9/20 as part of the @bkbf! SI poet laureate Marguerite Maria Rivas on her plans for the position, plus @eddiejjoyce and Lara Vapnyar read from new work set on the island #bkbf#statenisland#vapnyar https://t.co/Uaousft0V5
.@CutPasteRadio interviewed Marguerite Rivas, who we will be celebrating on June 26th as Staten Island's first Poet Laureate. Take a listen to the interview: https://t.co/ccevGS4dfW
We hope you can join us for the ceremony. To RSVP, please call Diane Marciuliano at 718-816-2246.
Our new Poet Laureate hit us w/ some deeply poignant works she wrote about her children & about 9/11. Then she shared with us a lighter, fun poem she wrote as a sequel to Edna St. Vincent Millay's Recuerdo. Another night w/ a truly great SI vibe in the big room at Borough Hall.