Monday, September 24, 2012
Notes on the Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
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by Kristin Iversen
on Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:25 PM
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- 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.
Tags: Brooklyn Book Festival, Tony Danza, Marty Markowitz, Philip Levine, Billy Collins, Victor LaValle, Adrian Tomine, Amelia Gray, Sapphire, Dennis Lehane, Kathleen Alcott, Barry Lyga, J.R. Angelella, David Rees