Walt Whitman Birthplace Association 2025 Poet of the Year – FREE

Jesse Curran as WWBA’s 2025 Long Island Poet of the Year!

The award for Jesse Curran will be presented on April 13, 2024 at 2PM with a Reception & Reading at The Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum. 

Born and raised in Huntington, Dr. Jesse Curran is a poet, essayist, scholar, and teacher who currently lives in Northport. Her creative work has appeared in dozens of literary journals including About Place, Blueline, After the Art, Cagibi, and Ruminate. She has also published two chapbooks of poems (Finishing Line, 2019 and 2021) and a lyric novel, A Handful of Earth (Press Pause Press, 2025). Her recent book project, a collection of poems and essays, turns to the North Shore of Long Island and explores the phenomenology of beholding landscape art and practicing landscape ekphrasis as a means of restoring a relationship to place. She teaches in the Department of English at SUNY Old Westbury, where she also directs the Campus Environmental Education Center. www.jesseleecurran.com

Event is Free and Open to the Public.