Here We Are Resources

This is a great resource for Parker's poetry—typically witty and ultra-clever.

This article discusses Parker's achievements and a play dramatizing her life-story at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Parker appears frequently in this article, which describes the rise and decline of The Algonquin Round Table—a group of writers and humorists known for their acid-tongued wit.

Towards the end of her life, Parker sat down for this interview with the prestigious Paris Review—the major magazine for interviews with famous writers.

One of Parker's witty, intellectual descendants pays her homage: Hitchens particularly praises Parker's support for the Civil Rights Movement.

The famous film critic Roger Ebert gives a thumb up to this movie about Parker's life.

A local writer reads Parker's story at a public reading in Norfolk, CT

Since it consists almost entirely of dialogue and has only two characters, "Here We Are" has often been adapted into a one-act play. This version (which is the only one on YouTube) is from West Valley High School in Yakima, Washington.

This hour-long documentary gives us the lowdown on The Algonquin Round Table—Parker's circle of witty friends who used to meet up at The Algonquin Hotel in New York.

Technically, this has nothing to do with "Here We Are"—except that it's another Parker story. Also, the fact that a famous person is reading it somehow makes it worthy of being included here.

There's no recording of Parker reading "Here We Are"—but if you want to hear what she sounded like, you can listen to her recite this poem.

The famous screenwriter, Budd Schulberg (who wrote On the Waterfront) remembers Parker.

Here's another Parker poem, read by the poet herself—it's got some pretty dark humor in it.

This photo shows Parker as a young woman—around the time she was breaking onto the literary scene.

Here's Parker later in life—during the period when she was throwing her weight around with the Civil Rights Movement.

In this group photo of the Algonquin Round Table, Parker is seated at lower, right-center. (She's the only woman in the picture.)

This is a caricature of the Round Table's members—Parker is on the lower left-hand side of the table.