Oral History Archive

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Zohra Saed

Poet and writer from Afghanistan who grew up in Southern Brooklyn

Shavon Meyers

A poet and storyteller on growing up in Coney Island at Gravesend Houses, the beach and Astroland

Norman Stock

Poet who grew up in Coney Island and was one of Dr. Couney's incubator babies

Angbeen Saleem

A poet and roller coaster lover describes her weekly ritual of riding the Coney Island Cyclone

Tymell Murphy

Professional basketball player and author of a book of poems and stories who grew up in Coney Island

Marina Rubin

Ukrainian emigre writer and author of Stealing Cherries, a collection of flash fiction