Filtering by poets
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Shavon Meyers
A poet and storyteller on growing up in Coney Island at Gravesend Houses, the beach and Astroland
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Angbeen Saleem
A poet and roller coaster lover describes her weekly ritual of riding the Coney Island Cyclone
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Tymell Murphy
Professional basketball player and author of a book of poems and stories who grew up in Coney Island
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Deena Metzger
Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II
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Ronald Wimberly
Storyteller, cartoonist and designer whose graphic novel Prince of Cats is partly set in 1980's Coney Island