New Works by BMCC Faculty: Readings from Elysia’s Knot and King of the Fireflies

Two BMCC faculty members will read from their latest creative works.

Philip Weisman (Media Arts and Technology) will read from his screenplay, Elysia’s Knot. Elysia’s Knot is about an unconventional couple in their forties who are both from the south end of Brooklyn (he, a jack of many trades including part-time self-employment as a matchmaker and wedding officiate and she, a commercial hauler and fisherwoman). The screenplay follows their journey by boat to New England, accompanied by a mysterious 12 year old girl whose memory, for the most part, has abandoned her. Facing a number of challenges along the way, the threesome grow closer as they approach their goal of locating Elysia’s “family”.

Rebecca Weiner (English) will read from her volume of poetry, King of the Fireflies. King of the Fireflies comprises five sections of poems that illuminate the passage and evolution within a life. now at middle age, lived fully, with all of the human concerns and complications. A subtext of my subject is more than just the struggles and ways of living expressed or emblemized poetically, but rather a sensing of convergences— narrated events and experiences— transformed into poetic expression that in form and content becomes a sort of conversion story, conversion from the Greek metanoia, literally a change of spirit or mind. Conversion can mean turning and movement, and is not a resting place. To quote T.S. Eliot again, from Four Quartets, Little Gidding: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

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