An Evening of Poetry Set to Modern Classical Music with Leonard Lehrman, Helene Williams, and Michael Niemann. This event was part of our Walking With Whitman Series. Event Video Link:  https://youtu.be/QaoBLbpzDwc LEONARD LEHRMAN is Long Island’s most prolific living composer; Editor of Boosey & Hawkes’ 3-volume Marc Blitzstein Songbook; and, with the blessings of Elie Siegmeister, […]

Poetry Reading with Poet & Voice Actor Bill Ratner. Event Video Link:  https://youtu.be/_479qHWYBj8 WWBA is delighted to present a live virtual Poetry Reading with Poet & Voice Actor Bill Ratner. Bill Ratner’s poetry is a mixture of narrative and memory-driven work with a smidgen of humor, irony, occasional politics, and a good portion of elegy. […]

Andrew Rimby presents “The Traveling Bachelor in Huntington Village: A Whitman Walking Tour.” Video Link:  https://youtu.be/ligxpA36tn0 WWBA is delighted to present "The Traveling Bachelor in Huntington Village: A Whitman Walking Tour” with Andrew Rimby, a PhD Candidate focusing his dissertation on Walt Whitman life and literary legacy. An exciting live virtual Zoom tour of Huntington Village, […]

A premiere of the short film Walt Whitman Facing West and a Q&A with filmmaker H. Paul Moon and Whitman impersonator Darrel Blaine Ford. Video of Walt Whitman Facing West:  https://youtu.be/nLS1LtFs6VM Q&A Video:  https://vimeo.com/471530682 A cinematic setting of poems by Walt Whitman that span his whole life's work, with the poet's Long Island native "personator" Darrel Blaine Ford manifesting and reciting […]