Parachute Literary Arts

Hey Get it Get it! This year‘s Coney Island Poetry Map is hot off the presses! Free maps are available in Parachute’s Little Free Library at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park, Surf City, Lunatics Ice Cream, Eldorado and Coney Island History Project. #poetry #publicart #coneyisland

We're super excited for New Year's Day 2024! You should join us! It's free (but you do need to register) runsignup.com/Race/NY/Brookl… and we greatly appreciate donations too!

@CIpolarbearclub So are we!

@JohannesGoranss @alice_notley Agreed

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin

Visit @ParachuteArts Poetry Wall at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park on weekends and pick up a free Coney Island Poetry Map at the Wonder Wheel turnstile! brooklynpaper.com/coney-island-p… @brooklynpaper

Witches of Brooklyn: Spell of a Time by Sophie Escabasse is out now and takes place in Coney Island!Featuring missing mermaids, a beach clean up, and talking seagulls book #Book 4 in this popular series is a great book to read in #ConeyIsland. ⁦@penguinrandom⁩

@colsonwhitehead I mean who else?

“Oh The Wonder” by Penny Arcade ⁦@PennyArcadeNYC⁩ ⁦@WonderWheelPark⁩ (3059 West 12th) THE CONEY ISLAND POETRY MAP is a free public poetry exhibit in Coney Island.The Coney Island Poetry Map is sponsored in part by grants from @nyculture and @poetryfoundation

Come read poetry about Coney Island courtesy of @ParachuteArts Poetry Map, a free public poetry installation funded by @NYCulture and @PoetryFound! All 25 poems now on view at the West 12 St entrance to @WonderWheelPark, inside the park, and locations throughout the community.

In the mood 4 a poetry hunt? @ParachuteArts has sprinkled 25 poems around #ConeyIsland's residential & amusement areas. Have U seen the 1 at @RubysBarGrill? Hint: Poet Laureate Tina Chang really raised the BAR.😉 We have maps. Happy hunting & C U on boardwalk! #Brooklyn #NYC #fun

The Poet’s Playground! Coney Island Poetry Map charts literary course through nabe • Brooklyn Paper! ⁦@brooklynpaper⁩ #TheConeyIslandPoetryMap Free Poetry Maps ⁦@WonderWheelPark⁩ ⁦@RubysBarGrill⁩ ⁦@EldoradoBumper⁩ ⁦ brooklynpaper.com/coney-island-p…

(1/3) one of our funders for the last 4 years can’t cover the costs of the workshop next month. This is unexpected news. So, I am personally reaching out for help. We are still going to offer the workshops and are committed to keeping them free and paying our workshop leader.

(1/2) Parachute Literary Arts is really excited that we are going into our fourth season of offering our free six-session My New York City poetry workshops! Workshops begin July 8th and will be offered virtually with SM Gray.
 We just found out Friday, that due to budget cuts,

(1/3) We need to raise $2500 by June 24 to cover the cost of the captionist for MY NEW YORK CITY workshops. Workshops are offered with CART (live captioning for those with hearing difficulties and hearing impairment). Here is a link to our PayPal Page paypal.com/us/fundraiser/…

Unboxing books donated from D.U.C. for our upcoming My New York City #poetry workshops with poet SM Gray! @sigliopress #poet #poetrycommunity #ConeyIsland #BookTwitter ##coneyislandboardwalk #ConeyIslandisPoetry #books #robertseydel #joebrainard

Listening to #Nas #Illmatic while grant writing. Random thought. Does anyone say ‘herb’ anymore? #90sSlang #90sNYC #poetry

NYC Rent 2023: NYC panel proposes 16% rent increase for 2-year leases in rent-stabilized apartments | abc7ny.com abc7ny.com/rent-apartment…

This is #ConeyIsland’s district! NYC Council candidate’s claims of working as a teacher and living in Brooklyn in doubt: Daily News investigation – New York Daily News nydailynews.com/news/politics/…

Happy #EarthDay. Our friends at Deno’s Wonder Wheel have a new bike rack! So bike on over to @WonderWheelPark! #coneyisland