#whitman200

[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

[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

[bklynlibrary]

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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

[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

[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.

[lionofchaeronea]

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

[mj1982mjha]

SONG OF MYSELF. Walt Whitman. I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. #WaltWhitman200 . #Whitman200. #happybirthdayWaltWhitman! #AmericanPoet . #AmericanPoetry . #Poet. #Poetry. #WaltWhitman. #Literature. (at Samastipur) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByINW4zBy88/?igshid=qpd3miahsh5b

[mj1982mjha]

SONG OF MYSELF. Walt Whitman. I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. #WaltWhitman200 . #Whitman200. #happybirthdayWaltWhitman! #AmericanPoet . #AmericanPoetry . #Poet. #Poetry. #WaltWhitman. #Literature. (at Samastipur) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByINW4zBy88/?igshid=hvys8cqin3fn

[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.