Volume 1 Brooklyn engages and connects the literary-minded from Brooklyn and beyond. It features short and long form content on our website and produces a number of free cultural events to bridge the gaps between various forms of culture and art.

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Vol. 1 Brooklyn

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James Jacob Hatfield is a displaced engineer, a painter, and many other contradictions. His work has appeared in X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Barely South Review, Chaleur Magazine, Havik, and others. His ekphrasis poem “torrents of lahar, No. 36” was anthologized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. He is a Sterling Fellow and a Weymouth Fellow. He is the creator and curator of the Gemini Sessions Substack. He lives in Durham, NC.

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A short story about going to a concert with your friend while his apartment gets robbed.

Listening Party

“You know Frank was considered a poet among painters,” said the woman. Statement, not question. She pointed at the sculpture with her walking stick like a professor at a blackboard.

My Foot

The Gravity of Water

"Good caviar was a vote against ending it all. When the night began, Sasha hadn’t known her own feelings on Royal Ossetra Caviar, but as the evening progressed, it emerged that she was a fan."

Pro/Con

Pride of Rotterdam

I felt myself being overcome by a wave of hopeful euphoria. Convinced the answers to all my love problems were dependent on how much I could gag myself on this toothbrush without tapping out. 

The Ritual

He reinserts his dingy finger in my mouth behind my bottom row of teeth and my tongue instinctively retreats from it. He adjusts the light above him. Pulls out a thick Expo marker. Makes a list of all the teeth he’s going to rip out.

Beautiful

Dad didn’t want to go into town since the sonars or radios or airwaves or radars in the trees would know what he was doing. He mumbled about satellites.

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