In Search of Walt Whitman – Andrew D Kaplan‘s 2020 PBS documentary
Walt Whitman’s Birthday today – (born West Hills, New York, May 31, 1819)
and coming next month (June 12-17) – the International Whitman Week Seminar & Symposium in Rome (featuring, among others, pre-eminent Whitman scholars Ed Folsom, Zachary Turpin, Eric Athenot and Marina Camboni) For full details of that week’s activities – see here
We also wanted to draw your attention to an on-going project, a stimulating project – The Calamus Project
Previous Whitman birthday postings on The Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here, here, here, here, and here
We posted this note in 2016, three days before Donald Trump was elected US President
Here’s Allen’s essay on Whitman – “Whitman’s Influence – A Mountain Too Vast To Be Seen”