Free Admission!

In honor of Poetry Month, Brighton Beach is hosting an exciting workshop and reading series with local Brooklyn poets. Join us for a poetry reading featuring Miller Oberman, Sheila Maldonado, Kaur Alia Ahmed at the iconic Freak Bar. Following the readings, there will be a Q&A with the audience.

Registration for this event is free. Drinks and refreshments will be available for purchase. 

Participants:

Kaur Alia Ahmed is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn. Their work has been shown with Entrance Gallery, Interstate Projects, Rhizome, the Poetry Project, BOMB Magazine, and their first book, Cursive Paradise, will be published this spring with Wendy’s Subway.

Sheila Maldonado is the author of the poetry collections that's what you get (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2021) and one-bedroom solo (Fly by Night Press / A Gathering of the Tribes, 2011). She is a CantoMundo fellow and a Creative Capital awardee as part of desveladas, a visual writing collective. She teaches English for the City University of New York. She was born in Brooklyn, raised in Coney Island, on 21st Street between Surf and Mermaid, the daughter of Armando and Vilma of El Progreso, Yoro, Honduras. She lives in El Alto Manhattan. 

Miller Oberman is the author of The Unstill Ones, Princeton UP 2017, and Impossible Things, Duke UP 2024. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Foglifter, The Nation, and poem-a-day, among other places. Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press, and is on the board of Brooklyn Poets. He teaches at Eugene Lang College, and lives with his family in the Catskills. Miller is a trans antizionist Jewish poet committed to the liberation of all.