Monday, September 24, 2012

Notes on the Brooklyn Book Festival 2012

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Not from the Brooklyn Book Festival. Because we couldnt get in to see Philip Levine! Poets are such rock stars.
  • Not from the Brooklyn Book Festival. Because we couldn't get in to see Philip Levine! Poets are such rock stars.

Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate for 2011-2012, participated in a panel of poets that attracted hundreds of people who queued up chaotically in Borough Hall's rotunda. Many (including us!) had to be turned away. "I thought I was the only one who liked poetry," one lady in line said. "That's what everybody thinks," a man told her.

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Kristin Iversen is the Managing Editor at Brooklyn Magazine and the L Magazine. She has been described as "a hipster buzzword made flesh." This seems pretty accurate.

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