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#InTheLoop | New Website Showcases Queens Poetry

A collaborative project is letting Queens poets showcase their talents while celebrating the borough’s beauty, resilience and strength. It’s also matching verses with local subway stations.

QUEENSBOUND has launched an interactive website with 33 poems, including verses about Astoria, Corona, Elmhurst, Flushing, Forest Hills, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, LeFrak City, Long Island City, Rego Park, Ridgewood, Sunnyside, and Woodside. It features an interactive subway map where each stop corresponds to a different composition. Users simply press on a station to hear a recited poem.

For example, hit the 7 train’s 82nd Street button for Vikas K. Menon’s “Queens Communion.” Try the E Train’s Jamaica Center for Sherese Francis’s “Liberty Ashes.”

Listeners can hear all the poems via SoundCloud. Here’s a sample of newly created works.

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond’s “Packed”

Kimiko Hahn’s “Ode to the F”

MA Dennis’s “ATCQ (A Tribe Called Queens)”

Nadia Q. Ahmad’s “Stretching Strength”

The entire map follows.

7 Train

Vernon Jackson — Ben-Oni’s “Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7”

33rd Street — Jama’s “Industrial Design & Sunset”

33rd Street — Francisco’s “Below the 7 Train at 33rd and Rawson, A Hammer Falls”

40th Street — Javier’s “A True Account of Talking to the 7 Line in Sunnyside”

46th Street – Trommer’s “7 to 46th Street/Bliss”

52nd Street —  Legaspi’s “[ their spine ]”

Woodside/61st Street — Hartounian’s “Next Summer”

69th Street — Hogan’s “Before Your Arrival”

69th Street — Sherbow’s “Seeing the Apartment at 69th Street”

74th Street/Broadway — Lima’s “When They Come for Us on the 7 Train”

74th Street/Broadway — Romani’s “Diversity Plaza”

82nd Street — Menon’s “Queens Communion”

90th Street — Hoque’s “Here I Love You New York”

103rd Street/Corona Plaza — Rehman’s “Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer)”

Mets-Willets Point — DeGraff and Burba’s “BOOM Mata: A QUEENSBOUND Mash Up”

Flushing/Main Street — Dennis’ “ATCQ (A Tribe Called Queens)”

Flushing/Main Street — Alvarez’s “149th Street Notebook”

E Train

Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue — Terrone’s “Hawthorne Court”

Sutphin Boulevard — Delgado’s “Trains Are More Than Metaphors”

Jamaica Center — Francis’s “Liberty Ashes (Keep Rising)”

M Train

Forest Avenue – Ostrom’s “Apatheia”

N Train

Astoria Boulevard — Lisella’s “Cornrows”

Ditmars Boulevard — Mobarak’s “Where the N Train Stops”

F Train

21st Street/Queensbridge — Bao’s “In Long Island City”

Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue — Chang’s “Kalpana Chawla Way”

Elmhurst Avenue — Brew-Hammond’s “Packed”

Forest Hills — Hahn’s “Ode to the F”

75th Street — Vikram’s “Love Affair on the F Train”

J Train

Woodhaven Boulevard – Black’s “Not Even Once”

R Train

Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue — Nair’s “In These Streets”

Woodhaven Boulevard — Tallie’s “Reckless Libations”

63rd Drive/Rego Park — Harél’s “All Possible Fates”

M Train

74th/Roosevelt — Ahmad’s “Stretching Strength”

Editor’s note: The photos in this post depict a live event that QUEENSBOUND, which KC Trommer founded in 2018, organized on Nov. 3, 2018. Participants gathered on the 7 train’s Queens-bound platform at the Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue stop at 2 pm. Contributors then read poems out loud as the group rode eastward to Flushing. They got off at the Mets-Willets Point station and walked to Queens Museum for a reception.

Top image: Dawn Siff; bottom image: Josh Steinbauer

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Come taste the world in the World’s Borough—from bold global flavors to neighborhood gems you’ll want to revisit again and again. 🌍🍜

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🧘‍♀️ July 13 – Yoga on the Farm (10–11 AM)
Start your Sunday grounded with a rejuvenating outdoor yoga session at Queens County Farm Museum. Bring your own mat and soak in the peaceful farm vibes. 🌾🧘‍♂️

🤠 July 15 – The Slide Stops (7 PM)
Live at the Gantries keeps the summer sounds rolling with this Brooklyn-based honky-tonk band. Country classics + heartfelt originals = dancing guaranteed. 🎶🌆

🛶 July 12 – Jamaica Bay Festival (8:45 AM)
Nature, art, kayaking, sailing, biking, and more—this free, family-friendly event celebrates the beauty and community around Jamaica Bay. 🌊🦀

🌿 July 17 – Wild Edibles Walk (5:30 PM)
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🍕 Pizza Eating Contest at Philomena’s, Sunnyside (July 4)
🎨 Free First Friday at The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City (July 4)
💃 Queensboro Dance Festival at Beach 17th St. Stage, Far Rockaway (July 5)
🕺 Latin Beats Plaza Party at Murray Playground, LIC (July 6)
🎶 Live at the Gantries: Celia Cruz Tribute at Gantry Plaza State Park, LIC (July 8)
🍵 Garden Creativi-Tea at Voelker Orth Museum, Flushing (July 8–29)
🎷 Jazz Jam All Stars at Flushing Town Hall (July 9)
🥁 Bryan Carrott Quintet at Baisley Pond Park, Jamaica (July 10)
🏞️ Camps begin at Queens Museum & Row NY in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

🧃 Family-friendly, free, and full of soul.
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Originally carved by legendary artist Daniel Carl Muller in 1903, this hand-crafted gem is one of the last of its kind — and it's still thrilling riders today. Nestled in the heart of Forest Park, it's a perfect mix of nostalgia, artistry, and pure summer fun.

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