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