Just a few weeks ago, Tina Chang was selected from 22 applicants to become Brooklyn’s latest poet laureate.
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Well, it turns out that Ms. Chang is good at more than poetry–she’s also very good at figuring out what is important. So, when recently interviewed for a piece on wordswithoutborders.org, “The Online Magazine for International Literature,” she was asked a series of questions. Here’s my favorite question and answer:
6. Is there an iconic literary place we should know?
I think everyone should visit Green-Wood Cemetery. There are notable residents there from Horace Greeley, the founder and editor of the New York Tribune, to artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat. They have a long calendar of events that celebrates the history of Brooklyn.
Another Green-Wood fan!
To read the entire interview, click here.