Poet Suheir Hammad performs her poem, "Brooklyn" from Ft. Greene Brooklyn's historic Masonic Temple on Open Book, a new weekly television series created and hosted by Ina Howard Parker.

OPEN BOOK is a new weekly half-hour television program about books and storytelling around the world. Each episode travels to a different spot on the planet to introduce you to writers and other artists— musicians, actors, filmmakers and more— living and creating there.

In the premiere episode, we visit Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a rich cultural heritage, to meet some of the writers and artists who live there including former child soldier Ishmael Beah, award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, legendary jazz musician Bill Lee, Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine Ford, creative genius Carl Hancock Rux, Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, singer Nucomme, and star of stage and screen, actor Jeffrey Wright.

CREDITS:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Ina Howard Parker
Executive Producer: Rod Alleyne
Director, Editor, Camera: Diane Paragas
Director of Photography: Francisco Aliwalas