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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Stop in on Wednesday, June 14th, between 1:00 and  4:00PM, for the opening of our new Father's Day Exhibit.  Many Whitman biographers have portrayed Walt’s father as a drunken, cruel […]

Join us Saturday, June 17th, and Sunday, June 18th, for New York State's Path Through History! Walt Whitman Birthplace Association will have old fashion toys from the era of Walt's […]

Join us in-person on Sunday, June 25th at 3:00PM to celebrate Deborah Hauser, the newly appointed Suffolk County Poet Laureate.  The ceremony will include the passing of the "Poet Laureate's […]

Join Us on ZOOM for the 2023 Gwenn A. Nusbaum/WWBA Poets to Come Award Ceremony on Wednesday, July 12 at 7:00PM EST to celebrate Scholarship Honoree, Susan Nguyen. Susan Nguyen […]

Join us on Sunday, July 16th, on ZOOM for our first program in WWBA 2023 Series: Legacy of Long Island’s First Peoples - Walt Whitman & Native Americans featuring Ed […]