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.