Tag: poet
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May 21, 2016 at 04:58PM
Lunchtime drawing: Poet Mark Van Doren, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1940 for ‘Collected Poems 1922–1938’, lived at 393 Bleecker Street in the 1920s. Back home in New York for a quick pit stop before continuing on to Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Stay tuned—and there might be a few days with…
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December 26, 2015 at 02:44PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Ezra Pound stayed at 9 Bank Street in the West Village in 1969 while working with the publisher James Laughlin. #NicksLunchboxService #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #EzraPound #GreenwichVillage #9BankStreet #architecture #art #poet (at Bank Street, West Village, NYC) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1NQsqmm via IFTTT
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August 27, 2015 at 04:11PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Ivy covered 18 West 10th Street was home to writer Emma Lazarus. A line from her poem, “The New Colossus,” is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Literary Greenwich Village 4/5 #NicksLunchboxService #EmmaLazarus #GreenwichVillage #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #poet #statueofliberty…
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August 25, 2015 at 01:44PM
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived at 75 ½ Bedford Street (only 9 and ½ feet wide), now partially under scaffolding from the building next door. She was the 1923 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry with “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A…
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August 24, 2015 at 03:34PM
lunchtime #drawing: for the last forty years of his life, poet e.e. cummings walked through this door to his home at number 4 patchin place, right around the corner from the jefferson market library. kicking off a literary series in greenwich village 1/5. #NicksLunchboxService #eecummings #GreenwichVillage #architecture #Literature #poet #architecture #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #lowercase (at Greenwich Village)…