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).

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Celebrating Whitman’s “Interlink’d, food-yielding lands!” with Fulton Stall Market

Founded by Bob Lewis and Stephen Dima, Fulton Stall Market is a non-profit public marketplace that connects farmers and producers with the lower Manhattan community.  Located in the historic district where NYC’s public markets began in the 1700's, Fulton Stall Market’s storefront is a first step toward reviving a year-round multiple-vendor public market-- a place to [...]

Giving Voice to Whitman in Turkish

Fahri Oz will present a general picture of Whitman translations in Turkish so far; dwelling on his translation strategy he will also read excerpts from Leaves of Grass in Turkish. View the Event Livestream Page Fahri Öz is an ex-academic, translator and poet. After signing Academic for Peace declaration in 2016, he was [...]

Walt Whitman, Thom Gunn, and the Art of Dressing Wounds 1865/1995

Please join WWI president Karen Karbiener and board member Triston Pullen for a conversation with Gil Cole, a writer and performer who has just returned to the theater after thirty years in practice as a psychoanalyst. This Garden Plot (which premiered at Theatre Row, NY, in October 2021) draws on the poetry of Walt Whitman and Thom [...]