Stephen Wolf

Central Park Love Song is both an intimate portrait and meticulous research of America's first great public park and the most visited site in New York City. Beginning with the narrator and his dog wandering the battered but still beautiful park in the late...

I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this...

Audrey Munson's radiant rise begins with New York's great self-glorification at the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration. Centerpiece for its grand banquet: a marble sculpture of the three graces. Eighteen-year-old Audrey modeled for all three.Soon she is posing for statues before the Plaza Hotel and atop...

Audrey Munson's radiant rise begins with New York's great self-glorification at the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration. Centerpiece for its grand banquet: a marble sculpture of the three graces. Eighteen-year-old Audrey modeled for all three.Soon she is posing for statues before the Plaza Hotel and atop...