St Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, the current location of The Poetry Project, has been an arty location since the 1920s (Credit: AA World Travel Library/Alamy) 6. St Marks Church-in-the-Bowery/The Poetry Project In 1966, assorted cafe poetry groups coalesced to form The Poetry Project in an unusual venue: a stately 18th-Century church on the corner of East 10th Street and Second Avenue in the East Village. Consecrated in 1799, the church was built on land once owned by colonial Dutch settler Peter Stuyvesant, who was buried on the site.

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