“You never know what you have inside until you put a pen in your hand. "
- Maya, 15 (Coney Island teen poet)
Parachute Literary Arts facilitates and supports programming in Coney Island, known as Lenapehoking, the traditional homeland of the Lenape People. We honor and acknowledge the generations of forcibly displaced families past, present, and future who are the original stewards of Turtle Island (North America). We recognize that we are on colonized land. We see you.