Edward Estlin Cummings’ father, a Congregational minister, shocked his staid parishioners in Boston’s Old South Church one Sunday by crying from the pulpit: “The Kingdom of Heaven is no spiritual roof ...

It is surely a remarkable coincidence that in every year which witnesses the publication of a book of poems by E. E. Cummings, the judges who award the Pulitzer Prize manage to find another poet to ...

Mayor Robert F. Wagner took a giant step across the cultural New Frontier last week. Indeed, in Cultural Frontiersmanship the Mayor was one up on President John F. Kennedy. The occasion for the ...

E.E. Cummings’s forgotten artist’s book: “Published in 1931, CIOPW includes 99 examples of Cummings’s visual art in charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolor.” Gerald Russello on David Jones’s ...

Exactly a century after it first appeared, E.E. Cummings' novel The Enormous Room has been republished, reminding us that its author may have been the most profoundly libertarian writer in American ...

Edward Estlin Cummings, 64 next week, is the goat-footed balloonMan of U.S. poetry, an image he himself used to describe a Pan-piping street vendor of gay toy balloons. In the weather of this poet’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Edward Estlin Cummings: Arts and ...