Thank you to all who came out for our Writer In Residence Master Class with Poet Linda Gregerson.

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On Friday, May 31, 2024 from 12PM-5PM we invite the community to drop in and celebrate Walt’s Birthday by planting flowers and listening to live music at the Birthplace! For more information visit waltwhitman.org/events/celebra…

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Thank you to George Wallace and "The Long Islander" for the article on our 2024 Poet in Residence Linda Gregerson!

With our new Executive Director Caitlyn Shea comes a new look! Caitlyn fell in love with this table the moment she saw it, and our Caretaker, John Murray, trekked to New Jersey to fulfill her vision. Come by and see it where it now sits prominently in our lobby.

Congratulations once again to the Birch Pages Writing Club for their front-page story in the "Merrick Herald Community Newspaper" in recognition of their First Place entry in the 2024 Walt Whitman Student Poetry Contest.

A shout out to the moms who joined us this past Saturday for “Year of Alice, Meditation for Moms,” hosted by The John and Alice Coltrane Home. We welcome the John & Alice Coltrane Home back to the Birthplace and look forward to partnering with them in the future.

Join us this Saturday, May 25th for "Art in the Barn: Let's Travel to Monet's Garden". We will be planting our own herbs in the Art Barn and reading Christina Björk’s book “Linneas’s Windowsill Garden”. For more information visit waltwhitman.org/events/art-in-…

Celebrate Father's Day with us on Sunday, June 16th, with a hike to Jayne's Hill! Our Tour Guide and Educator, Jack Canfora, will guide hikers on the trail Walt Whitman took when visiting his childhood home in Long Island. For more information visit waltwhitman.org/events/celebra…

Join us on June 20th at 5PM for Freedom to be Fabulous in celebration of Juneteenth! This event is FREE! For more information visit waltwhitman.org/events/freedom…

Join us on June 8, 2024, on Zoom for Poets Building Bridges featuring Long Island Poets, Maltese Diaspora, Romanian Diaspora. For more information visit waltwhitman.org/events/poets-b…

Join us this Friday, May 31st, 12-5PM, as we invite the community to drop in and celebrate Walt’s Birthday by planting flowers and listening to live music at the Birthplace! A birthday cake will be provided in honor of Walt! For more information visit waltwhitman.org/events

WWBA congratulates the Gwenn A. Nusbaum-WWBA 2024 Scholarship recipient, Samuel Burt. Samuel is a poet and artist from Grinnell, Iowa whose poems have been featured in many print and digital journals. For more info visit waltwhitman.org/nusbaumscholar…

Join us on June 21, 7-9PM for Love Forever – Celebrating LGBTQ+ Poets Then and Now, featuring readings by Alicia Mountain, Ana Božičević and a discussion by Rusty Rose sharing her personal account of the Stonewall Rebellion and Pride-themed Open Mic. waltwhitman.org/events/celebra…

Join us this Saturday, June 1st for "Art in the Barn: Summer has arrived!" We will be painting and reading “Edward Hopper Summer at the Seashore” by Deborah Lyons. For more information visit waltwhitman.org/events/art-in-…

Exciting events coming this September at the Walt Whitman Birthplace in #HuntingtonNY To Purchase Tickets: waltwhitman.org/events/

Share your favorite love poems—classic or self-written—celebrating any type of love, from friendship to family, self-love, or romance. RSVP at waltwhitman.org

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass