“What happens to all of the pages that people put under the bed?”
That is a question that artists Melissa Hunter Gurney and Chris Carr asked themselves during the months before they birthed GAMBAZine, an international publication rooted in Greenpoint and Bushwick.
From the beginning, Gurney says that GAMBA had an activist slant. The duo wanted to create a literary magazine free of the politics and favoritism rampant in mainstream publications.
“Sometimes it feels like your…
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My first subbing teaching job was in Greenpoint. My two books one a tone poem collection “Gods Depicting Pastime” and the other is short story collection: “Specks in the Eyes of Seeing”. I do have some works about Brooklyn when I was attending Brooklyn College and then CCNY where I graduated. We lived on Metropolitan Avenue. Should I send some?