Celebrate 200 Reading Walt Whitman

A great idea to celebrate the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman,The Poetry Motel Foundation and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild will hold a public reading of “Song of Myself” on May 31 at the Robert Burns Statue, Washington Park, Albany, NY. 

If you’re in the area, they are looking for readers to help manage some of the 1300 lines in 52 sections. For those not nearby – perhaps arranging a public reading in your own town would be a wonderful commemoration of the poet in keeping with “most of Whitman’s work . . . [a] celebration of the individual, of the nation, and of the spiritual possibility within us all.”