Whitman wrote for the Long Island Star and became the managing editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle through 1848, where he editorialized daily life in Brooklyn, even advocating for public green space in Brooklyn Heights and Fort Greene. 

Brooklyn! It existed long before you were born, it will keep existing long after you’re dead. That being said, as long as […]

It’s National Poetry Month, and so far you’ve been shut out by both the public library’s and mayor’s office poetry contests. Aw, […]

Walt Whitman, you might remember, is Brooklyn’s most famous author ever, even if he never received a $3.5 million book deal in […]

Brokelyn is giving away three copies to Literary Brooklyn, Evan Hughes’ new chronicle of the borough’s writer’s scene, from Walt Whitman’s day to the present.

More than a hundred years before Biggie Smalls graced the Brooklyn streets with his lyrics, another BK bard captured the hearts and […]