Interintellect host <a href="https://twitter.com/PreCursorPoets">Timothy Wilcox</a> invites you join in celebrating Bloomsday in New York to honour James Joyce. 

Bloomsday is June 16 (next Wednesday), commemorating the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set.

Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom around Dublin, making his way back to his wife, Molly, whose love must be reborn after the two suffered a loss. In life, June 16 was also the day of the first outing between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle.

Finnegans Wake expands on this dynamic greatly. Infamously one of the most difficult books to read, we will be entering the text into the soundscape of Prospect Park, Brooklyn – doing a distributed reading of the novel in its entirety.

All are welcome to wander and listen from 3:00 PM to around 7:30 PM, starting and ending at the carousel, and looping down around the Peninsula and Nethermead.

With this event, I am particularly looking for readers. No prior expertise is required, and print copies of the book (to read from and keep) can be acquired with advance notice. Most of interest for an Interintellect group might be section 15 (Book III, Chapter 3), which will run from around 3:15 to 6:30, and can be read from either the north end of the grassy Nethermead field or the potential grilling spot at its northernmost tip (grills themselves not provided).

For solo readers (or pairs if you’d like), there are also a few other sections of the book left open to read, particularly in pre-5:00 PM time slots. I am very open to providing books and other accommodations.

For a map and photos of all the approximate reading spots, <a href="https://www.precursorpoets.com/bloomsday-2021/">click here</a>.

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