Apr
3
7:30 PM19:30
May
4
1:00 PM13:00
A Persistence of Cormorants Reading
A Persistence of Cormorants Reading - Season Opener - at the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse, 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn
May
18
2:00 PM14:00
NYC Poets Afloat - Harborwide Reading
6th annual NYC Poets Afloat harborwide reading aboard tall ship Wavertree at South Street Seaport Museum.
TICKETS HERE:
Jun
5
6:30 PM18:30
NYC Poets Afloat - Brooklyn Reading
NYC Poets Afloat - Brooklyn Reading - Waterfront Museum aboard Lehigh Valley No. 79 barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn (near Sunny’s Bar).
Ticketing forthcoming (proceeds split amongst poets).
Jan
31
7:00 PM19:00
Sunnyside Arts Poetry Reading
Featuring Poets: Indian Amirthanayagam and Brad Vogel
+ Open Mic
4518 Skillman Avenue, Queens, NYC
Nov
25
7:00 PM19:00
BEHEMOTH
Join Gowanus poet Brad Vogel and friends at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse at 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn, for BEHEMOTH, a poetry reading after dark wrapped in the coils of Leviathan, a giant driftwood sculptural installation by artist Jos Prol (both leviathan and behemoth are primordial monsters mentioned in the ancient Book of Job). We’ll meditate on unstoppable fell forces, vaguely defined powers that impact our lives, and things monstrous, seemingly undeniable.
Poets include:
Darius Phelps
Reuben Gelley Newman
Benjamin Heim Shepard
DL Newton
Brad Vogel
Oct
27
2:00 PM14:00
Oct
4
7:00 PM19:00
The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal
Brad Vogel reads a number of poems in the musical The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal by composer Wes Braver at Principles GI Coffee House on October 4 and 5th, 2024 (he’s also co-producing the show!).
Sep
30
7:45 AM07:45
Gowanus Dawn Reading - 8th Annual
Our 8th annual Gowanus Dawn Reading! We’ll proclaim poetry from Julian Talamantez Brolaski's "gowanus atropolis" in canoes on the Gowanus Canal!
Readers: 7:00 am report time at Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club’s Bunker Launch Site at 2 19th St, Brooklyn. Request spot as a canoe reader from Brad.Vogel[@]gmail.com
Audience: 7:45 am arrival at 9th Street Bridge - check @gowanusdredgers and www.gowanuscanal.org to be sure amidst superfund work - watch and listen from a bridge over the Gowanus Canal.
Dredgers Captain Emeritus and poet Brad Vogel and performer and vocalist Melody Bates lead the crew as they get medieval on Brolaski's sludgy verse. This is an official Brooklyn Book Festival Book End Event.
Sep
11
7:30 PM19:30
The Personal Is Political: Gay Male Poets Reckon with Identity on 9/11 - HOT Festival
"How does individual identity intersect with that of a larger community, and of a nation? Poet & critic Jerome Ellison Murphy introduces a one-hour reading featuring four gay male poets, Sebastian Doherty, Joseph Legaspi, David Groff, and Brad Vogel, to reckon with the multivalence of gay male identity in our fraught national moment."
Sep
9
7:00 PM19:00
Hard Gloam
Sign up here to learn the reading location at 6:30 pm on Monday 9.9.24....before a special reading at 7 pm in Gowanus...it might just be in an actual feral pocket. I'll tackle some of my more difficult, dense, lengthy poems, including some I have not yet read in full to any audience. Like the 5-page poem "Extremophiles" - this is gloopy, tortuous, Gowanusy stuff!
Aug
29
7:00 PM19:00
Book Talk: Books Are Magic (Smith Street)
Brad Vogel in conversation with fellow Gowanus resident Lillian Ruiz
Books Are Magic, Smith Street Location - 7 pm
Poet Brad Vogel paddles through pollution, relationships, environmental concerns, accreted layers of history, and even humor as he distills Gowanus into a collection of unique, sometimes bracing poems. The collection captures the values of "the unplanned place" in the urban landscape and the individual mind of a city dweller. A quirky, flood-prone realm on the brink, Gowanus comes to life through an array of lenses, from floating condoms to street-end weeds, from resilient fish to unknown organisms in the polluted muck, a weird world is found to be worth noticing, worth loving.
Jun
21
8:45 PM20:45
Gowanustasia IV - Poetry Reading
Join poets Omotara James, Billy Cancel, Brad Vogel, and Terence Degnan for a reading as Principles GI Coffee House celebrates two years as a rabblerousing community coffeeshop.
Jun
14
8:00 PM20:00
Not In Fact Dead - Brad Vogel's Poetry Set to Music
Join Unheard-of Ensemble as they perform music that sets Brad Vogel’s poetry (from the book Find Me In the Feral Pockets) to music. Get tickets to join in a canoe or on land at the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club’s Bunker Launch Site at 2 19th Street.
May
25
8:00 PM20:00
Not In Fact Dead (Music Inspired by Brad Vogel's Poetry)
Join Unheard-of Ensemble and the Gowanus Dredgers for the paddle-in premiere of new works by Unheard-of as they kick off the 2024 Cultural Ecologies Season!
The first season performance features ensemble members and composer-performers Ford and Iva presenting two premieres. Ford’s work sets the murky poetry of Brad Vogel, Gowanus local and former Dredgers captain with video created in collaboration with artist Bonnie Ralston, while Iva’s work explores her connection to her Mexican culture through Aztec myth.
Apr
20
11:00 AM11:00
New Orleans Poetry Festival - Panel Reading
More here - Full event details here - Reclaiming Land and Water: Voices at Home & Abroad
Apr
17
7:00 PM19:00
Poetry Reading - New Orleans, Louisiana
Poet Brad Vogel returns to New Orleans with a reading from his book Find Me in the Feral Pockets on the Magnolia Bridge over Bayou St. John. 7-8 pm on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. Following the reading, it’s off to local watering hole Pal’s.
Mar
31
12:00 PM12:00
Gowanustasia #3 - Poetry Reading
Poetry reading at Principles GI Coffee House in Gowanus. 12-2 pm at 139 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Grab a coffee and join poets Joanne McFarland, Sam Ross, Bonnie Jill Emmanuel & Brad Vogel for a reading.
Mar
23
5:00 PM17:00
Poets Who Love Poets
Presented by No, Dear Magazine - reading alongside multiple poets at a communally-curated poetry reading at Francis Kite Club.
Mar
21
6:00 PM18:00
World Poetry Day Reading
Join poets Jee Leong Koh and Brad Vogel as they welcome a range of poets for an evening celebrating world poetry.
Principles GI Coffee House - 139 9th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NYC
Feb
29
5:00 PM17:00
Book Launch - Find Me In the Feral Pockets
Join poet Brad Vogel for the Leap Day launch of his new poetry collection Find Me In the Feral Pockets: Poems from the Gowanus Interregnum.
Principles GI Coffee House - 139 9th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NYC
Doors at 5 pm
Book Launch 6-8 pm
Afterparty follows nearby
Jan
16
7:30 PM19:30
Sep
29
7:45 AM07:45
Gowanus Dawn Reading
7th Annual Gowanus Dawn Reading - watch & listen at 7:45 am from the 9th Street Bridge in Gowanus, Brooklyn, as poets in canoes (thanks Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club) share the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. An official Brooklyn Book Festival Book End Event. Co-coordinated by Gowanusians Brad Vogel & Melody Bates.
Apr
30
11:00 AM11:00
Gowanustasia - Poetry Reading
Join poets Brad Vogel, Jee Leong Koh, Jenna Cardinale, and D L Newton for a poetry reading at Principles GI Coffeehouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn from 11 am - Noon to close out National Poetry Month.
Sep
18
7:00 AM07:00
Whitman on the Gowanus in Canoes at Dawn
Full details here - an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event! Reading Whitman’s Sea Drift poems as part of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club’s third annual dawn canoe reading. Contact in advance to be a reader. Presented with the Walt Whitman Initiative and the Gowanus Souvenir Shop.
http://waltwhitmaninitiative.org/event/whitman-in-canoes-on-the-gowanus-at-dawn/
Sep
16
8:20 PM20:20
Whitman After Dark
Join us for an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event!
Bring your lantern, your candle, or you flashlight as we head off on a roving after dark reading of Whitman’s poem The Sleepers:
Feb
28
7:00 PM19:00
Green Pavilion Poetry Event
Reading with Jee Leong Koh and others - 4307 18th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218
Jul
17
5:00 PM17:00
Kickstarter Summer of Poetry Reading and Reception
Kickstarter HQ - Greenpoint, Brooklyn - 7.17.18
Jul
11
2:00 PM14:00
Wallace Stevens Cultural Medallion Unveiling - Wallace Stevens Home at 441 W. 21st, NYC
Historic Landmarks Preservation Center - Reading poem “Prayer to My Patron” - 7.11.18
Aug
11
5:30 PM17:30
Jun
23
7:30 PM19:30
Pride Week: Emotive Fruition Reading
Thursday, June 23 @ 7:30pm
Botanic Lab, 86 Orchard Street, NYC
Actors read poems centered on the LGBT experience, including one by Brad Vogel
Tickets here: Tickets
Apr
9
7:00 PM19:00
Apr
9
4:30 PM16:30
Feb
13
7:00 PM19:00
Love Songs from the Closet - NYC Valentine's Eve Reading
Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
208 W 13th St, Rm 210, New York, New York 10011
Dancer Mariusz Kujawski will accompany and interpret a number of the poems.
