Gay New York: An Interview with Artist Nicholas Buffon
Nicholas Buffon discusses capturing gay history and New York’s “decayed and changing present” in his exhibition at Poets House, on view through November 30.
Tag: Walt Whitman
Announcing Fall 2019: Ballads, Poetry & Science, Halpern & Howe Celebrations, and More!
Posted Sep 13, 2019
At Poets House this fall: workshops, readings, talks & performances with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mahogany L. Browne, Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass, Fanny Howe, and more.
Walt Whitman Coming Your Way: 2019 Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
By Suzanne Wise, Staff Writer
Posted May 31, 2019
Hear the words of Walt Whitman in the year of his 200th birthday, along with other poets celebrating NYC, on this annual poetic pilgrimage in support of Poets House.
…Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis with Kay Ulanday Barrett
By Kay Ulanday Barrett
Posted May 10, 2019
Kay Ulanday Barrett describes June Jordan’s legacy and their mission as “a transgender brown poet and educator to imagine beyond hazardous constraints of binaries.”
Audio Roundup: Epic Voices & Tributes to Influential Poets
Posted Apr 2, 2019
Listen to Bernadette Mayer, Dorianne Laux, Kwame Dawes, and Matt Madden on the long poem, and hear about the legacies of June Jordan, Walt Whitman, and Gerrit Lansing.
Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Bill Zavatsky
By Bill Zavatsky
Posted Mar 28, 2019
Writer and educator Bill Zavatsky discusses June Jordan’s “For the Sake of People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” and the legacy of both poets.
Writing & Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Taiyo Na
By Taiyo Na
Posted Mar 15, 2019
Poet, musician & educator Taiyo Na explores June Jordan’s legacy, touching on basketball, activist songwriting & teaching as “an act of creating sanctuary.”
Poetry of the City with Walt Whitman
By Rigoberto González
Posted Jan 2, 2019
Rigoberto González explores the poem “Mannahatta,” Whitman’s ode to “a skyline made of iron and cement.”