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Revolutionary Verses: Two Centuries of Poetry in the Village

April is National Poetry Month, a chance to celebrate the power of language, imagination, and place. Few places in America have inspired as much poetry or had as many poets call it home as Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. For over two centuries, these neighborhoods have served as both refuge and crucible for […]

On this day in history…

GVSHP is marking March, Women’s History Month, with some great public programs. But today I am going to focus on two men who helped to shape the history, geography, and culture of Greenwich Village and the East Village. On March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known to us as Jack Kerouac, […]