This year the Brooklyn Arts Council decided to do a poetry event for their annual September 11th Memorial Project. Last night at the PS Bookstore in DUMBO there was a reading of poems by Brooklynites on the experience of 911 and the process of remembering and memorializing it. This morning, an article in the New York Daily News described the project as a way to help a nation heal and move on—but “never forget”:

Howard, a lawyer living in Downtown Brooklyn at the time of the attack, decided others shouldn’t forget it, either – so she put it into verse, penning lines such as: “our eyes drawn over there/to the broken skyline./a reminder of why we/walk away from Manhattan.”

“It’s important to document that history, as tragic and horrible as it is,” she said. “With words and poetry and stories, you really get inside the head of the people that experienced it.”