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VILLAGE VOICES: e.e. cummings
e.e. cummings October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962 Poet and Painter One of America’s most celebrated 20th-century poets, cummings wrote poems known for their experimental nature and striking visual…
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A Half Century Since the Passing of ee cummings
…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,…
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 3: cummings, Cunningham, and Draper
…permanently available online. Today we explore three more of our 31 shadowboxes from the event: e.e. cummings, Merce Cunningham, and John W. Draper. e.e. cummings One of America’s most celebrated 20th-century poets,…
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My Favorite Things: Poets Edition
…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…
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Celebrating the Preservationists of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…that writer e.e. cummings would be evicted, he made sure the renovation permits would not be approved. Apparently, cummings wrote a letter to the mayor in March, 1962, saying: “To…
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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…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…
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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village
…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…
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Greenwich Village Authors on Autumn
…Cummings, 4 Patchin Place L: E. E. Cummings, photo by Bettmann / Getty Images. R: 4 Patchin Place, 2019 and 1969. Like Djuna Barnes, the poet e.e. cummings (1894-1962) lived…
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José García Villa: Poet and “Pope of Greenwich Village”
…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….
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Spring Inspires Poetry in Greenwich Village
…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 /…
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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District
…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…
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Love is a Place – A Poet’s Walk of Greenwich Village
…Cummings wrote that “love is a place.” Perhaps he meant 4 Patchin Place, in Greenwich Village, where he lived from 1924-1962. Cummings was certainly not the only poet to live…
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Research Resource: Surrealism in our Neighborhoods
…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…
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VILLAGE VOICES
…Eustis, and other Village residents and supporters who lent their voices to this project. Berenice Abbott W.H. Auden James Baldwin Jean-Michel Basquiat Elizabeth Blackwell Margaret Wise Brown e.e. cummings Merce…
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Carol Janeway: Ceramicist and Fierce Village Advocate
…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…
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Dylan Thomas in New York: The Rock Star Poet at his Zenith
…usually concluded the performance with a 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…
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Oral History with the Queen of Cuisine, Mimi Sheraton
…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…
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Haunts of Dylan Thomas walking tour with Poet Bob Holman
…and E.E. Cummings’ apartment on Patchin Place. After the tour, quench your thirst at the historic White Horse Tavern. The bar is where Thomas hoisted his last drink, and we’ll…
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Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac!
…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…
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Jackson Square Library: An Exquisite Building, and once a church of ‘Exquisite Panic’
…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…
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Welcome to NYC, Dylan Thomas
…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…
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Village Voices Annual Benefit Preview: Reading the Village
…writers and musicians, including James Baldwin, Henry James, W.H. Auden, Lorraine Hansberry, e.e. cummings, Oliver Sacks, Larry Kramer, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and Margaret Wise Brown. As a preview to…
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Greenwich Village Was In Her Blood
…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…
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On West 13th Street, A Journal Founded By Transcendentalists, That Hit “Like An Atom Bomb”
…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…
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Many Layers of History between 3rd and 2nd Avenues
…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;…
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All the World’s a Village on Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday
…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…
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Connie Converse: The Enigma and Mystery of the Original Singer Songwriter
…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…
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What’s In a Historic Plaque?
…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…
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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…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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Thank You and Goodnight, Mrs. Maisel!
…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…
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Looking Up: West 3rd Street
…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…
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Great Modernist Thinker and Critic Kenneth Burke Calls Ten Village Addresses Home
…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…
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Keeping an Eye on Historic Patchin Place Following Recent Sale
…1840s houses, is among the most iconic and charming in Greenwich Village, having housed figures from Marlon Brando and ee cummings to John Reed and Djuna Barnes over the years….
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VILLAGE VOICES: A New Interactive Art and History Exhibit
…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,…
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VILLAGE VOICES II Launches September 18th
…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….
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Remembering Joey Ramone
…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…
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Celebrating National Great Poetry Reading Day
…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….
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11 landmarks of immigration in Greenwich Village
…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,…
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Open House New York in Greenwich Village: The history of three unique sites
…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…
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Carole Teller’s ‘Changing New York’ captures the city’s 20th-century transformation
…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…
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Beyond the Village and Back: 1083 Fifth Avenue Mansion and Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Harlem
…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…
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The Beginnings of Punk in the East Village – How the Ramones Came to CBGB
…While the downtown scene in Manhattan has become synonymous with The Ramones, it was the borough of Queens where the band began. Tommy Erdelyi, John Cummings, Doug Colvin, and Jeffrey…
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Celebrating the Landmarks of Immigration in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…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…
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South Village Highlights – see for yourself
…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…
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March 2024 Programs: Black History in Greenwich Village, Berenice Abbott, Jane Jacobs, and More
…and how did living there impact Powys? Among the low-rent boarding houses were home to very many writers, including long-term residents such as poet E. E. Cummings (from 1924 to…
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Patchin Place: History and Literary Connections
…as the poet E. E. Cummings (from 1924 to 1962) and the novelist Djuna Barnes (1940 to 1982), and short-term occupants including the political activist and writer John Reed (not…
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Women Crush Wednesday: The Poets
…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?’…
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Village People: Djuna Barnes
…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…
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Women Crush Wednesday: The Poets
…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?’…
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