Monday, March 4, 2019

Walt Whitman: Citizen Poet

In honor of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, the Poetry Foundation presents Walt Whitman: Citizen Poet. Produced and directed by Haydn Reiss and Zinc Films, this short film introduces an American original whose influence on contemporary poets remains vital, and whose work helped define a young democracy's promise and its bold, independent identity. Whitman's poetry unites us in freedom and our compassionate, common humanity.
     --Poetry Foundation, February 20, 2019

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American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
with a (fake) butterfly

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