Pacific Standard / 82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY / July 7th / 7pm

For the first six months of 2014, Underwater New York and Trop cross-published Waterfronts, a bi-weekly series of personal essays engaging with the waterways of New York City and Los Angeles. We were thrilled to co-host a reading to celebrate the culmination of the collaboration at Pacific Standard on July 7th, 2014. Steve Mentz, Betsy Bradley, Lisa Kunik, Jess Pastore, Erin Baer and Nicole Haroutunian read their short essays. Pacific Standard represented the LA coast and ordered nautical Heavy Seas beer for the occasion! A full house came out to support the readers, including many UNY contributors. We want to thank our new friends at Trop, Alyssa Vine, Evan Allgood and Tom Dibblee for making the collaboration so successful. Here are a few photos from the event!

Steve Mentz

UNY Founding Editor Nicki Pombier Berger

Lisa Kunik

UNY Editor Helen Georgas

Betsy Bradley

Jess Pastore

Erin Baer

UNY Editor Nicole Haroutunian

On October 29, Underwater New York hosted a reading in conjunction with Silent Beaches, Untold Stories, an exhibit curated by Elizabeth Albert at St. John’s University. The evening featured original work written for Underwater New York by St. John’s faculty members Robert Fanuzzi, Steve Mentz, Gabriel Brownstein and Lee Ann Brown, and special guest Nelly Reifler. UNY contributing poet Nicole Cirino read a poem to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, which fell on the same evening as the reading.

Listen to the readings below (and please forgive some recording idiosyncrasies and ambient sound...)