Art and Poetry Virtual Workshop: Exploring the Relationship between Images & Words with Karen De Mauro and Caitlyn Shea. Event Video Link:  https://youtu.be/GWOXss1JdzI A virtual workshop exploring practices that combine imagery and text in compelling ways to deepen the expressive power of both. Find out how words and art change each other to make a new meaningful hybrid […]

Walking With Whitman featuring Gregory Leadbetter, Tom Stock, and Rorie Kelly.

Discuss about The Divine Comedy with Cliff Bleidner, WWBA’s 2021 LI Poet of the Year. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/ShUmjoAU_pI Cliff Bleidner invites you to hitch a ride with Dante, Virgil, and Dante's beloved Beatrice through the realms of the next world in the year 1300. (All links mentioned in this video are below). Dante creates his own universe with […]

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.

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 […]

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 featuring Vicki Iorio, Denise Duhamel, and Josie Bello. Event Video Link:  https://youtu.be/LJWZVBinOsU

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

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: The Complete Correspondence. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/JeGhha6Lj5w

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 […]

Another installment of Walking With Whitman featured Martin Espada, Denis Gray, and Josie Bello. Event Video Link: https://youtu.be/uMFeUpvLySY