…Estlin Cummings, or e.e. cummings, 1894-1962. The Village and East Village have spawned so many remarkable and influential literary figures, one would be hard pressed to name them all. Unsurprisingly,…
Read More…Edward Estlin Cummings, or e.e. cummings, wrote poems known for their experimental nature and striking visual layout. After graduating from Harvard, cummings came to New York in 1917 to work…
Read More…me, and in many ways embodied the Village’s pioneering spirit of innovation. Edward Estlin Cummings, or e.e. cummings, 1894-1962. Edward Estlin Cummings, or e.e. cummings as he was more often…
Read More…History e. e. cummings, 4 Patchin Place 4-10 Patchin Place, 1969 (above) and 2019 (below). 1969 photo courtesy of Village Preservation blog. The poet e. e. cummings lived at No….
Read More…cummings, 4 Patchin Place The great modernist poet-playwright and author ee (Edward Estlin) cummings lived at No. 4 Patchin Place for four decades, until his death in 1962. cummings is most known…
Read More…8. ee cummings, 4 Patchin Place The great modernist poet-playwright and author ee (Edward Estlin) cummings lived at No. 4 Patchin Place for four decades, until his death in 1962. cummings is…
Read More…American literary circles. 1933. Footnote To Youth by José García Villa. Villa became an especially good friend of poet ee cummings, and they remained close until cummings’ death in 1962….
Read More…century-old bar located in the building, known as ‘Marie’s Crisis,’ partly in tribute to Paine. #4 Patchin Place – e. e. cummings ee cummings (left), and Patchin Place, where he…
Read More…glimpse into a particular time as coincidentally, all were composed in or around the early 1920s. E. E. Cummings, 4 Patchin Place L: E. E. Cummings, photo by Bettmann /…
Read More…selection from his own works. It is said that his friend and fellow poet, e e cummings, was so moved by Dylan’s performances that he walked the streets in contemplation…
Read More…During this same period, the poet e.e. cummings also called Patchin Place home (he lived at no. 4 for four decades, until his death in 1962). Apparently, Cummings was among…
Read More…Brando, and e.e. cummings, Barnes was a resident of the gated cul-de-sac of Patchin Place. She lived at 5 Patchin Place for over four decades until her death in 1982…
Read More…he co-founded the Ramones alongside friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, the latter of whom was already going by Dee Dee Ramone, taken from the pseudonym used by the Beatles…
Read More…performed for the first time in 1962, in Stockholm. She became a recluse, living out the last forty-two years of her life at Patchin Place. E. E. Cummings, who lived…
Read More…is hidden away at 4 Patchin Place, an alley off West 10th Street: This plaque even has another one installed above it, placed by the e.e. cummings society and the…
Read More…falls ‘The Wasteland.’” Other recipients of the Dial Award included William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, and Marianne Moore. Alyse Gregory. Photo courtesy Hilary Henderson When Thayer and Watson stepped…
Read More…ee cummings, first campaigned to get the clock working again, and then to have the building saved and returned to community use as a library. In the days before the…
Read More…in 1854. Thomas Cummings also had his studio there during that time. He was the Vice President of the academy and ran the school starting in 1856. 58 East 13th…
Read More…modernist world. This year, Burke also received The Dial’s prestigious award (also received by William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, and Marianne Moore). By January of 1929, Burke’s address…
Read More…Carol Greitzer, Margot Gayle and Philip Wittenberg, and including Lewis Mumford, E.E. Cummings (who lived across the street in Patchin Place) and actor Maurice Evans, rallied to save the building…
Read More…out for the Sunday paper, she would be out there getting a paper, and walking Fala. And e.e. cummings was around, he lived at Patchin Place, and you would see…
Read More…Bookstore on 9th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues, where Michael Caine and Barbara Hershey shopped for ee cummings poetry in ‘Hannah and Her Sister’ (Pageant actually retains an online…
Read More…Street, though obscured by the elevated train line (which was razed in 1939, immortalized in the poems of e.e. cummings, who lived nearby), played a role in much of the…
Read More…1933. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA) Dylan Thomas (Welsh poet Dylan Thomas at Gotham Book Shop, New York. Via www.allposters.co.uk) E.E. Cummings (photo via…
Read More…Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Wise Brown, E. E. Cummings, John W. Draper, Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Larry Kramer, Joan Mitchell, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Oliver Sacks,…
Read More…1966. Minetta Tavern was a popular literary haunt in the 1920s, attracting the likes of E. E. Cummings, Joe Gould, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O’Neill, and Ezra Pound. Across the street…
Read More…Dylan, and E.E. Cummings. In 2008, the Welsh Assembly Government created a Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village. Written by Peter Thabit Jones and Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan…
Read More…South Village venues on MacDougal Street including Minetta Tavern which was very popular with a number of notable writers including Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway, and e.e. Cummings; the 1927 coffee…
Read More…the fire; John Sloan painted pictures of the bar at least four times (one of which is in the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection); e.e. cummings has a poem about McSorley’s;…
Read More…But a key part of its history is the immigrants who were the original occupants of these quaint cottages. Long before poet ee cummings, journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant,…
Read More…of its history is the immigrants who were the original occupants of these quaint cottages. Long before poet ee cummings, journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant, authors Charles Platt and…
Read More…and E.E. Cummings. Millay immersed herself in the culture and gained quite a reputation in the Village. She lived in various locations throughout the Village starting in 1917, but most…
Read More…American Cities argued that “urban renewal did not respect the needs of city dwellers.” New sites and locations of the shadowboxes include Jean-Michel Basquiat, E. E. Cummings, Merce Cunningham, John W….
Read More…life at Patchin Place. E. E. Cummings, who lived at 4 Patchin Place, was known to check up on her by shouting through his window: ‘Are you still alive, Djuna?’…
Read More…graced our neighborhoods, from ee cummings to Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden to Amiri Baraka. Click here to explore more poets of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo….
Read More…Tavern opened in 1937 and quickly became a regular hangout for writing legends including Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O’Neill, e.e. cummings, and Dylan Thomas. “The City Spoon” AKA La Bonbonniere Midge…
Read More…life at Patchin Place. E. E. Cummings, who lived at 4 Patchin Place, was known to check up on her by shouting through his window: ‘Are you still alive, Djuna?’…
Read More…William S. Burroughs, Margaret Mead, Patricia Highsmith, Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, and her favorite writer, E.E. Cummings. She set up house in a 400 square-foot apartment in a building constructed…
Read More…who of Village bohemia. E.E. Cummings lived at 4 Patchin Place for nearly his entire career as a poet; modernist Djuna Barnes lived at number 5 for four decades starting…
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