Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
A six-part discussion series with WWBA Writer in Residence George Wallace about Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza - Exploring the emergent Latinx Literature of America's Southwestern Border.
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Walt Whitman Birthplace
Walking With Whitman – Barbara Ann Branca and Bryan Gallo
Walking With Whitman featuring Barbara Ann Branca and Bryan Gallo, part of WWBA’s poetry in performance signature series. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/rBQGOGwMyow WWBA is delighted to present the 11th season of Walking With Whitman, hosted by Writer-in-Residence George Wallace. (All links mentioned in this video are below). The signature series continues to bring the most intriguing figures […]
Composers Meet Whitman
WWBA is proud to introduce our Walt Whitman Music Archive. Composers Meet Whitman featured Daron Hagen, H. Paul Moon, George Mallis, and Gilda Lyons. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/YrwkxiV7ae8 WWBA presents “Composers Meet Whitman,” a virtual discussion featuring the works of composer, writer, and filmmaker Daron Hagen, who discusses works by a variety of composers based on Whitman’s […]
Walking With Whitman – Vicki Iorio, Denise Duhamel, and Josie Bello
Walking With Whitman featuring Vicki Iorio, Denise Duhamel, and Josie Bello. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/LJWZVBinOsU
World Poetry Day 2022 Triangulation Project – Poets Building Bridges
Poets Building Bridges is a series of poetry readings featuring international poets. Writer-In-Residence George Wallace curated this series and hosted this event. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/-nM-zXs6RkY
Adelphi Composers Meet Whitman
Student composers from Adelphi visited the Birthplace to “Meet” Whitman Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/h4PPcnGNUc8
Book Talk with Maire Mullins about Hannah Whitman Heyde
Book Talk with Maire Mullins about Hannah Whitman Heyde: The Complete Correspondence. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/JeGhha6Lj5w
Intersection: Jazz and Free Verse with Dudley Music, Ashley Kahn, and E. J. Antonio
WWBA’s new series Intersections: African American Voices of Democracy’s first event, Intersection: Jazz and Free Verse with Dudley Music, Ashley Kahn, and E. J. Antonio. E.J. Antonio received fellowships in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Cave Canem Foundation. She’s appeared as a featured reader and performer at venues in the NY tri-state […]
Walking With Whitman featuring Martin Espada, Denis Gray, and Josie Bello
Another installment of Walking With Whitman featured Martin Espada, Denis Gray, and Josie Bello. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/uMFeUpvLySY
WWBA’s Long Island Poet of the Year 2022: Matt Pasca.
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association's 2022 Long Island Poet of the Year - Matt Pasca. Each year, WWBA honors a notable Long Island poet as WWBA Long Island Poet of the Year. The qualifications for this award are that the poet be a distinguished and well-respected poet who champions poetry through their writing, teaching, and support […]
Walking With Whitman with Diane Frank
Friday May 6th, Walking With Whitman will feature publisher Diane Frank of Blue Light Press and the new anthology NYC FROM THE INSIDE, featuring 179 poets and 360 pages of poetry. The anthology has been called a landmark collection for American poetry in the 21rst century, includes numerous winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book […]
2022 Poet-in-Residence Natasha Trethewey
WWBA is delighted to share the distinguished voice of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Natasha Trethewey. She was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and 2013. In her second term as United States Poet Laureate, Trethewey’s signature project was a PBS NewsHour Poetry Series, “Where Poetry Lives.” In this series, Trethewey traveled with Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown to […]
