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.
Tickets here for our reading aboard the tall ship Wavertree at the South Street Seaport Museum from 2-4 pm on Sunday, May 17th. Poets are going out on their respective vessels this month and will be sharing poetry from their time afloat. Ticket sales for this reading go to the shipkeepers who make the series [...]
Swing by the Park Slope Branch of Brooklyn Public Library for a reading where each poet will read a poem that has gotten them through a hard time...and then share one of their own poems that has helped them survive a hard time. With poet and WWI board member Brad Vogel. April 21st, 6:30-8:00 pm. [...]
Join poets and UCLA faculty members, Drs. Amber West and Susannah Rodriguez Drissi in honoring the legacy of the father of American poetry with a lively evening of original poetry, puppetry, and music by diverse Los Angeles artists including puppeteer Audrey Densmore and musical duo The Singer & The Songwriter, Fowler Museum, 6-7pm This performance [...]
