A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the sixteen scheduled Sundays, from 1:30 to 3:30, up to four featured poets will read for 10 to 15 minutes each. On 7/9 join Austin Alexsis, Jordan Franklin, Mara M. Jebson, and Cynthia Manick.

The readings will be followed by open mic time limited to ten readers (one poem no longer than 3 minutes) who have signed up the day of the reading on a first come basis.