Art in the Barn: Storytime and hands-on art project for Pre-schoolers  is a new workshop for pre-schoolers at Walt Whitman Birthplace. Taught by Lena Massari Sawyer, former Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Come and join us […]

Announcing the 2024 Long Island Poet of the Year –  Nancy Keating 2024 Long Island Poet of the Year Award Reception & Reading will be held on April 21, 2024, […]

Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) presents  Walking With Whitman: Poetry in Performance, hosted by Writer-in-Residence George Wallace. The signature series, now in its 14th season, continues to bring the most intriguing figures […]

May 4th Art in the Barn is Cancelled, no Art in the Barn on May 11th Art in the Barn: Storytime and hands-on art project for Pre-schoolers  is a new workshop for pre-schoolers at […]

Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) announces a day of poetry featuring our 2024 Poet in Residence Linda Gregerson on Saturday, May 4, 2024 Linda will facilitate a three-hour Master Class […]

Join us on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at noon for our 2024 Student Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony.

George Wallace and Walt Whitman Birthplace proudly present season three of POETS BUILDING BRIDGES: A TRIANGULATION PROJECT, inaugurated in March 2022 with the purpose of enhancing dialogue between communities of […]

Art in the Barn: Storytime and hands-on art project for Pre-schoolers  is a new workshop for pre-schoolers at Walt Whitman Birthplace. Taught by Lena Massari Sawyer, former Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Come and join us […]

Art in the Barn: Storytime and hands-on art project for Pre-schoolers  is a new workshop for pre-schoolers at Walt Whitman Birthplace. Taught by Lena Massari Sawyer, former Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Come and join us […]

We invite the community to drop in and celebrate Walt's Birthday, by planting flowers and listening to live music at the Birthplace! Friday, May 31, 2024 12PM-5PM Annuals will be […]

Art in the Barn: Storytime and hands-on art project for Pre-schoolers  is a new workshop for pre-schoolers at Walt Whitman Birthplace. Taught by Lena Massari Sawyer, former Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Come and join us […]

Announcing 2024/2026 Suffolk County Teen Poet Laureate Sarah Goodman An Awards Ceremony will be held at WWBA on Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 3:00PM. The public is invited to attend.  Sarah Goodman […]