Walt Whitman Birthplace

WWBA mourns the loss of beloved poet Wendy Barker. We offer our condolences to her family and friends. With sorrow, Walking With Whitman: Poetry in Performance on May 5th is cancelled

Join us at WWBA for New York State I Love My Park Day on Saturday, May 6, 2023, 10AM-3PM, and help clean up a local park. Clean out garden beds, prune shrubs, plant flower and vegetable gardens, and powerwash walkways. Register at https://www.ptny.org/events/i-love-my-park-day Volunteers should bring lunch and can bring a trowel and/or rake if […]

On Sunday, May 7, 2023, 1:00PM, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association presents an in-person event, “Diverse Voices in May,” featuring three distinct poetic voices, Indran Amirthanayagam of Washington D.C., Sara Cahill Marron of Long Island, and Nathalie E. Amazan, 2016 WWBA Student Poetry Writing Contest First Place winner. Drawing from their cultural backgrounds and infused with […]

Stop in on Wednesday, May 10th, between 1:00 and  4:00PM, for the opening of our new Mother's Day Exhibit.  There is no doubt among biographers of Walt Whitman that his mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, had a great influence on him. In fact, about a quarter of the letters he wrote throughout his lifetime were […]

Sponsored by Humanities NY - Six Wednesday evenings, 6:00-7:30PM - April 12, 19, 26 & May 3, 10, 17  (2023)  - ZOOM only Theme - "Land, Liberty & Loss: Echoes of the American Revolution" Book - Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks One time registration fee:  $10 Registration […]

Sponsored by Humanities NY - Six Wednesday evenings, 6:00-7:30PM - April 12, 19, 26 & May 3, 10, 17  (2023)  - ZOOM only Theme - "Land, Liberty & Loss: Echoes of the American Revolution" Book - Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks One time registration fee:  $10 Registration […]

Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) announces a day of poetry featuring our 2023 Poet in Residence, Kwame Dawes, on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Kwame will facilitate a three-hour Master Class in poetry writing from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm and a one-hour poetry reading from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm at the Walt Whitman Birthplace […]

Join us on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 12PM noon, for WWBA's 37th Annual Birthday Celebration and Student Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony. 2023 WWBA Poet in Residence Kwame Dawes will officiate the ceremony and the Grand Champions will read their poems. This event will be held rain or shine under the tent on the grand […]

Join us at WWBA on Wednesday, May 31st, 1:oo-3:00PM, for an open-mic poetry afternoon in our outdoor poetry circle to celebrate Walt's 104th Birthday! We will be live streaming on our YouTube channel @WaltWhitmanBirthplace. For inclement weather we will be indoors in the Interpretive Center

Youth Speaks for Social Justice, hosted by Suffolk County Teen Poet Laureate, is a spoken-word performance event and competition focused on social justice issues as a fundraiser to help address systemic inequalities. Proceeds from the event will be donated to a charity of the winner’s choosing. Register to attend or participate:  https://forms.gle/ctNUxJCU81FMeUgd7  Ella Scarlett O’Connor […]

George Wallace and Walt Whitman Birthplace proudly present season two of POETS BUILDING BRIDGES: A TRIANGULATION PROJECT, inaugurated in March 2022 with the purpose of enhancing dialogue between communities of writers across the US and internationally. Based on a shared small-group experience, these Saturday zoom sessions engage three distinct and well defined communities of poets […]

You are invited to a special event! Come see a staged reading of AMERICAN POET: WHITMAN’S WARNINGS, a bold new play revealing Walt Whitman’s creative genius amidst national crises. Register to attend staged reading at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KWDcs68iOqsOv21e5heGaEKXkB4SkmhKADsSx-Uq92M/edit Producer Jared Hershkowitz will present a staged reading of the new play AMERICAN POET: Whitman’s Warnings in Huntington on June 10, 2023. […]