Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) presents  “Walking With Whitman: Poetry in Performance.”  The signature series, now in its 13th season, continues to bring the most intriguing figures in contemporary literature on the national scene paired with local poets on the Walt Whitman Stage. Friday, September 1st, Walking With Whitman will feature Armenian poet Lola Koundakjian, […]

Join us at the Walt Whitman Birthplace for an open mic night, Y.A.W.P.: Young Artists and Writers Party, Thursday, September 14, 7:00 to 9:00PM. Come share your poetry, prose, short plays, music, and visual art with other like-minded creatives. Performances are on a first come, first served basis. Performers may come up on stage, briefly […]

WWBA is delighted to present our Fall Humanities Book Series, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History by Ned Blackhawk. A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. The most enduring feature of U.S. history is […]

Join us on Thursday, September 21st, for our 3rd program in WWBA 2023 Series: Legacy of Long Island’s First Peoples, Long Island Native Americans' Boarding School Experience featuring Marguerite Smith, Esq.  See below for ZOOM link and information. The Indian Boarding School Movement began with the missionary and charity Indian schools in the New England region in […]

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY AUTHOR  Tom Piazza in-person reading, Q&A, and book signing It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and […]