American Academy of Arts and Letters has included such members as Pearl S. Buck, William S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, e.e.cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, Lillian Hellman, William Dean Howells, Christopher Isherwood, William James, Henry James, Carl Sandburg, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Thornton Wilder, and Thomas Wolfe.
Bryant Park, behind the main branch of the New York Public Library, was named after poet and editor William Cullen Bryant.
The apartment where W. H. Auden lived from 1953 to 1972 is not open to the public.
Since its foundation in 1969, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of the best cross-section of contemporary American poetry. Every issue of NYQ includes a Craft Interview with an outstanding poet on the general subject of style, prosody and technique, as well as informational articles on poets and poetry.
Founded in 1994, the literary journal, Spinning Jenny, is an open forum for poetry, fiction, and drama.
Barrow Street, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in New York City which publishes a literary journal and poetry books.
The Cortland Review is an online magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and exclusive voice-recordings of the poets reading their own poems. The magazine publishes monthly, but issues are quarterly.
Mission Statement – Nightboat Books, a nonprofit organization, seeks to develop audiences for writers whose work resists convention and transcends boundaries, by publishing books rich with poignancy, intelligence and risk.
Yara Arts Group creates poetry events and theatre pieces based on poetry, epics and songs members translate from cultures of the East – East Europe, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Buryat Republic in Siberia, Mongolia, China and Japan.
“Through the front door, a small coffee shop serving great coffee and Yonah Shimmel Knish Noshes. Clothespinned to the clothesline above the cash register are homemade chapbooks–under the counter are spoken word CDs–Poetry Served Here. Behind the curtain, a performance space that seats over 100, a state-of-the-art sound system with digital recording and cybercast facilities … Continued