#Whitman200

[brooklynmuseum]

This year marks Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, so this month we’ll be featuring works from the collection along with commentary from Whitman’s writings.

In the 1850s, Walt Whitman frequented an exhibition of Egyptian artifacts now part of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. He befriended the original collector, Dr. Henry Abbott, and even read through a two-volume history of ancient Egypt (a rare feat for the poet, who notoriously left books unfinished). The royal effect and calm expression of statues like this one resonated with Whitman, who called the Egyptian collection “a place to go when one would ponder and evolve great thoughts.”

Continue the Whitman celebrations on October 25, when we unveil a new artwork inspired by the famous Brooklynite in One: Xu Bing and use the #ASKBKM app to tour the Museum in the author’s footsteps.

Posted by Forrest Pelsue Head of an Early Eighteenth Dynasty King, ca. 1539-1493 B.C.E. Sandstone, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.38E. Creative Commons-BY 

[lionofchaeronea]

Happy 200th birthday to Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819.

[kslsrsc]

Happy 200th birthday to Walt Whitman, born on May 31, 1819. These are images of our library’s copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855.

[bklynlibrary]

We here at Brooklyn Public Library are excited for the opportunity to celebrate Walt Whitman on the occasion of his 200th birthday! Whitman lived and worked for part of his life in Brooklyn and penned “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” so, as you can imagine, Brooklynites are eager to claim him as OUR poet (although, Camden, NJ, you can have some too--there’s enough to go around).

Yet today Whitman is celebrated not only for his voice or his association with Brooklyn, he is also embraced as an iconic, queer poet—his sexuality being inferred by many through analysis of his poetry and biographical details. The Whitman tradition is indeed alive and well and is to me characterized by three, key stylistic components: a focus on the body, celebrating language and exhibiting exuberant emotion. But who, you might ask, are these poets carrying this tradition forward? While Whitman’s impact on contemporary poetry is wide-ranging, three queer poets who each draw on lines from Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (1855) and who also embrace these Whitmanesque aspects in their work, immediately come to mind.

[christinamrau]

Thanks @bookriot for sharing my love of Walt Whitman and @morganlibrary

[lindadubingarfield]

At Rosenbach where curators are selecting work from my See America Singing series for exhibition for #Whitman200 in October #worksonpaper #printmaking #art (at The Rosenbach) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByI3MHmDuyP/?igshid=4jq0d9s0qb6d

[uh-hunhoney]

Happy Whitman200! Here’s my third favorite Whitman poem 💫.

Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturned love

But now I think there is no unreturned love, the pay is certain one way or another

(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not returned, yet out of that I have written these songs).

Sometimes with One I Love || Walt Whitman

[mj1982mjha]

The Great American Poet Walt Whitman would have been 200 today ! #WaltWhitman200. #Whitman200 . #WaltWhitman . #happybirthdayWaltWhitman ! #Poet. #Poetry. #AmericanPoet . #AmericanPoetry . #Literature. (at Samastipur) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByIOD48hKKX/?igshid=1c2h2q3z3lbmh

[pgcclibrary]

Today marks the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday. We celebrate the bicentennial with a reading of #CrossingBrooklynFerry by Brooklynites, filmed across the borough #Whitman loved and in our libraries. #whitman200 Full video: bklynlib.org/crossingbrooklynferry Reposted from @bklynlibrary #Repost (at Prince George's Community College) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByIgufmhXxB/?igshid=dc8dugfuwvyp

[swanngalleries]

Happy 200th Birthday, #WaltWhitman! 🎂🎂🎂 Coming up in #ThePrideSale is a remembrance copy of Whitman's "Memoranda During the War," 1875-76, inscribed by the author, "with his love," to romantic partner #PeterDoyle. On view beginning June 15. #SwannGalleries #SwannBooks #whitmanbicentennial #Stonewall50 #WorldPride #whitman200 http://bit.ly/2HPK3K5

[mcglothlinsourlandmtn-blog]

#whitman200 https://www.waltwhitman.org/?event=walt-whitman-international-festival&event_date=2019-08-08

[brooklynmuseum]

This year marks Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, so this month we’ll be featuring works from the collection along with commentary from Whitman’s writings.

Walt Whitman and his friend William Sidney Mount both grew up in rural Long Island. Whitman’s poem “A Song of Joys” revels in a childhood full of companionship and adventure on the Island’s shores and farms. As he wrote, “O to go back to the place where I was born, / To hear the birds sing once more, / To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more, / And through the orchards and along the old lanes once more…” The poem has a pastoral appeal similar to Mount’s art, like this painting, which depicts a group of young men escaping their duties with a noonday nap.

Continue the Whitman celebrations on October 25, when we unveil a new artwork inspired by the famous Brooklynite in One: Xu Bing and use the ASK Brooklyn Museum app to tour the Museum in the author’s footsteps.

Posted by Matthew Ward William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868). Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping in a Field), 1848. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 39.608 

[instapicsil1]

200 years ago today, on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman is born. Whitman is best remembered today as a poet, known for his works including “Leaves of Grass,” “O Captain! My Captain!,” and “The Wound Dresser.” During the Civil War, Whitman visited wounded and sick soldiers in Washington, D.C. hospitals. Today he is also remembered for his romantic relationships with men—making him an icon in LGBTQ history to some. Here he is featured on the cover of the July 1954 magazine of One Magazine, a magazine published by a LGBTQ rights group. #WaltWhitman #TDIH #OTD #AmericanHistory #LGBTQHistory #Pride #Pride2019 #DCPride #DCHistory #Whitman200 http://bit.ly/2XivbZL

[lapluma-y-latinta]

Don’t be shy; apply for our SUPER FUN Walt Whitman tribute reading, OYE MI CANTO (a remix of pieces of Song of Myself). Visit plumaytinta.org/Whitman200 for details. Due March 15. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjcT7IH982/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7ufv9ucrhrrw

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Today marks the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday. We celebrate the bicentennial with a reading of #CrossingBrooklynFerry by Brooklynites, filmed across the borough #Whitman loved and in our libraries. #whitman200 Full video: bklynlib.org/crossingbrooklynferry https://www.instagram.com/p/ByIckCWnf7s/?igshid=1h6og1891b97c

[fhear]

"Dracula" author Bram Stoker's extraordinary love letter to Walt Whitman, born 200 years ago today https://t.co/2jV4qZd5X5 #Whitman200 pic.twitter.com/M8oKnzTEuO

— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) June 1, 2019