If you are searching for Whitman-related events in the the New York area, please also check the Walt Whitman Birthplace website (we highly recommend the tours of the house Whitman Sr. built and Walt lived in for his first four years) and the Whitman House in Camden, NJ (step inside Walt’s home for his last decade).
If you have an event you’d like to list with us, please let us know: waltwhitmaninitiaitve@gmail.com.
Cake, coffin, gavel, choir, composers, live musical trolling! On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the much lauded homo poet Walt Whitman's birth, a group of Philly queers and misfits known as The Bearded Ladies Cabaret gathers overlooking the Whitman Bridge to put this ancestor and his legacy on trial. Come with friends, complaints, [...]
Daughters of Whitman: Womxn literary and performing artists explore the legacy of the father of American poetry, Beyond Baroque, Venice, 5-8pm, free! Reception with cake will follow performance in honor of Whitman’s bicentennial. RSVP here! Featured Artists: bridgette bianca, Audrey Densmore, Dominiqua Dickey, Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, Cecilia Fairchild, Heather Nagami, Vickie Vertiz, Amber West Co-sponsored by UCLA Writing Programs, UCLA Arts Initiative, and the [...]
The Guthrie is proud to present Leaves of Grass – Illuminated, written and performed by Patrick Scully, from the text by Walt Whitman. This unique event summons the spirit of Walt Whitman, revealing his many sides. From the furtive – changing genders to “straighten things up” – to the fierce – defying the censors while getting [...]
Actor John Kevin Jones of the Summoners Ensemble -- much beloved WWI camerado -- offers his resonant performance of "Whitman in Love" at the Merchants House Museum (NYC) for a limited run during Pride Month 2026: 6/24 - 6/28. Jones brings to life Whitman's "Live Oak, with Moss" poems, his most intimate expressions of self, in [...]
