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
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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 […]
2022 Student Poetry Awards
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association is delighted to announce our 36th annual Student Poetry Contest. 2022 Poet-In-Residence Natasha Trethewey will officiate the afternoon. GRAND CHAMPIONS 2022 Category Name Poem School Category A Riya Golia “The Joy Flower” The Laurel Hill School Category B Alicia DiGiambattista “Realization & Renewal” Great Hollow Middle School Category C Charlotte Huang […]
I Love My Park Day
Help the “Leaves of Grass” grow! Roll up your sleeves and participate in outdoor spring cleanup of the Walt Whitman Birthplace, as part of a statewide initiative to maintain parks. Walk-ins welcome. Rain date: May 21st. Bring your own gardening tools. Lunch, Birthplace tours, and free t-shirt provided. Click here to register: https://forms.gle/YxbiuDak7cX4t6oYA
Intersections of the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes
As part of our Intersections: African American Voices of Democracy Series, WWBA welcomes creative scholars to discuss the poetry, life, and legacy of Langston Hughes and connections to poetry by Walt Whitman. Presenters include educator, dancer, and singer Peter Brooks and educator and author Ivy Wilson. Hughes (1901-1967) wrote his famous poem, “I, Too” which […]
