The Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) was founded in 2000 to promote multicultural literature and literacy. The IAAS encourages people of all cultural and socio-economic backgrounds to adopt reading, writing and the arts – in all of its forms – as part of their lifelong process. The IAAS’s primary objective is to … Continued
In 1981, New York City Landmark status was given to the Harlem home of Langston Hughes at 20 East 127th Street by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and 127th Street was renamed Langston Hughes Place. The Langston Hughes House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982.
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Chartwell Booksellers is an independent bookstore in the heart of midtown-Manhattan that for more than 35 years has combined the best of the old and the new. We are the only standing bookshop in the world devoted to everything by and about WINSTON CHURCHILL. Our rare book specialties beyond Churchill include collectible PHOTOGRAPHY books, LITERARY … Continued
The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination is a non-profit that offers multidisciplinary roundtable discussions; poetry, music and film series; and art exhibitions. Our poetry series features established and emerging poets, reading and discussing their own and others’ work. These events offer an intimate look at how poets think about and craft poetry. … Continued
The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction provides low cost space for writers to work in midtown Manhattan. Located in a beautiful, quiet, fully restored, sky lit space, The Studio provides the perfect setting conducive to the craft of writing. Each writer has access to a private desk, a personal locker, a reference library, a refreshment … Continued
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting hosts the Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series which usually offers four to eight poetry readings a year, 95% of which are free and open to the public. Participants in the Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series have been Charles Simic, Charles Wright, Mark Strand, Martha Serpas, Harold Bloom, Henri Cole, … Continued
The Provincetown Playhouse, Greenwich Village, presented plays by playwrights Eugene O’Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Maxwell Bodenheim, Alfred Kreymborg, and e.e.cummings.
The Pulitzer Fountain, East 59th Street and Grand Army Plaza, was built in 1916 and given to the city by Joseph Pulitzer.