Shaolin Island Flock
featuring poets Elle Jay Synder, Jenny Pisani, Fern Metcalf, Thomas Fucaloro, Maya da Poet, and M.A. Dennis.
Staten Island, aka “Shaolin,” is home to a large population of wild turkeys. Interestingly enough, a group of wild turkeys is a flock instead of domesticated turkeys that gather as a gang. The wild turkey is a protected creature. SIF seeks to protect the poet, the artist, and all who have a desire to express themselves creatively. Collaboration is the secret recipe sauce. When we, as Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man would say, all come together as Voltron, we learn more about ourselves and the world and find our safe space inside it. We find ways, artistic and practical, to be better and do better.