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The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002. [1] Located at 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston Streets in Manhattan 's East Village , the BPC is a popular meeting place for poets and aspiring artists.
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a nonprofit organization in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is a bastion of the Nuyorican (Puerto Rican New Yorker) art movement, and has become a forum for poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy, and theater. [1]
The Poetry Society of New York is an American nonprofit organized in the state of New York in 2015. [1] Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski are founding partners. Its mission is finding new and innovative ways to bring together the poetry community with the general public through a series of events and projects. [2]
The Village Vanguard in New York City, 2018. The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Originally, the club presented folk music and beat poetry, but it became primarily a jazz music venue in 1957. It has hosted many highly renowned ...
The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets, [7] [8] [9] including Bob Dylan. [10] [11] Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk ...
Cotton Club on 125th Street in New York City, December 2013. An incarnation of the Cotton Club opened on 125th Street in Harlem in 1978. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] James Haskins wrote at the time, "Today, there is a new incarnation of the Cotton Club that sits on the most western end of the 125th Street under the massive Manhattanville viaduct.
92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a cultural and community center located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the corner of East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
A table d'hôte menu from the dinner for Walter Damrosch at the Lotos Club, 1893. The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". [1]