The Center for Independent Publishing at the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen is tucked away in a corner office of a landmark library, in the heart of what might be called “Literary Row.” To provide information and draw public awareness to the offerings of the many small presses in the U.S., the Center for … Continued
Trinity Churchyard is the site of Charlotte Temple’s grave. Charlotte Temple was the pseudonym of Charlotte Stanley who may be who is interred here. Charlotte Temple was the main character of a Susanna Haswell Rowson novel. Trinity Churchyard, 74 Trinity Place, Manhattan, New York, is also the final resting place for William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, … Continued
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, near 155th Street and Broadway, is the final resting place for Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens (lecturer on the life of his father, Charles Dickens), and Clement Clarke Moore.
Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street YMHA, 1395 Lexington Avenue, hosts one of the oldest and most revered reading series in the country; it has presented such major modern poets as W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and Dylan Thomas. Other Poetry Center guests have included Saul Bellow, … Continued
Washington Square Park, Washington Square, Greenwich Village, New York, New York, was a favorite stopping place of writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), who met there in 1888. Others were Henry James and Edith Wharton.
The Edith Wharton Birthplace is not open to the public.
White Horse Tavern, 567 Hudson Street and West 11th Street, New York, New York, has been frequented by many writers, including Louis Auchincloss, Brendan Behan, John Malcolm Brinnin, Jack Kerouac, Delmore Schwartz, and Dylan Thomas. The White Horse holds the dubious distinction of being the place where Dylan Thomas drank his last whiskey.
Columbia University MFA Program – The Columbia MFA curriculum consists of workshops, master classes, seminars and lectures created for writers by writers. The courses operate under the ethic of examining literature from a practitioner’s perspective, not as a theorist or scholar. The program takes advantage of the wide resources of both Columbia and New York … 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.