Oral History Archive

Filtering by poets back to all

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

Tymell Murphy

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

Deena Metzger

Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II

Ronald Wimberly

Storyteller, cartoonist and designer whose graphic novel Prince of Cats is partly set in 1980's Coney Island

Marina Rubin

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

Eva Zucker

Memories of a Yiddish literary household in 1940's and 1950's Coney Island and Sea Gate

Meg Feeley

Memories of her grandfather's frosted food business and a renegade ride on the Thunderbolt