Thanks to a generous gift from the Greenwood Family, the Poetry Center is named in honor of Bella Unterberg, one of 92nd Street Y's founders.
The Unterberg Poetry Center is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Generous support has also been provided by Eva Colin Usdan and John Usdan; the Kaplen Foundation in honor of Eva Colin Usdan; Joan L. and Dr. Julius H. Jacobson II; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; The Hite Foundation; John E. Greenwood; Random House, Inc.; the Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust; the Louise Bogan Charitable Trust; the Axe-Houghton Foundation; Daniel and Edith Ehrlich; The Bydale Foundation; The David Geffen Foundation; The Jaffe Family Foundation; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; Joan Blaine; Frances E. and Frederic S. Nathan; Ruth Schlesinger; Donna Regenstreif; Professor and Mrs. Robert Kavesh; and Poets & Writers, Inc. among others, particularly our season Patrons Program members.
The Poetry Center's digital archive and webcasts are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.
Subsidized tickets for students, seniors and other audience members are made possible through generous grants from the Dorothy and Sidney Singer Fund; the Doris U. Powell Memorial Fund; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Major support for the Poetry Center Schools Project has been provided by the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development and the New York City Council; Time Warner Cable, in partnership with Ovation; Bezos Family Foundation; The Leir Charitable Foundations in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Generous support is also provided by The Hearst Foundations; The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation; the Moses L. Parshelsky Foundation; Alan and Katherine Stroock Fund; and Banu and Moris Roso.
