After taking a look at the Hugo House last week, let’s get back to the East Coast. Specifically, let’s examine Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop.
By the way, I appreciate the poetry spotlight ideas people have sent my way. Keep them coming at robert.brewer@fwmedia.com with the subject line: Poetry Spotlight Idea.
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Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop
In case the name was not a dead giveaway, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop is a bookstore that exclusively sells poetry. This family-run bookstore claims to be the only all-poetry bookstore in New York City and originally started as a traveling booth at the Brooklyn Flea and other events.
In 2013, the husband-wife poet team of Jared White and Farrah Field found a permanent location for Berl’s in DUMBO Brooklyn. By the way, both poets have published multiple collections themselves and a poem by Field is included in the Best American Poetry 2011 anthology.
In their own words, “We are a bookstore that sells poetry books and chapbooks; a space that celebrates art, creativity, performance, and the handmade; a partner to many small presses local to Brooklyn, around the country, and worldwide; a place for readers of all ages; a passion project; an experiment; a gallery for books; a home for words; and a place to read, to hear poets read, to meet poets and readers, and to join a community.”
Learn more here.
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Robert Lee Brewer is the editor of Poet’s Market and author of Solving the World’s Problems. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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Check out these other poetic posts:
- Bryan Borland: Poet Interview.
- Collecting Poems Into a Book: 5 Poets Share Their Method.
- WD Poetic Form Challenge: Diminishing Verse.
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