“Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
No more modest than immodest.
Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.“
Remembering Walt Whitman on his birthday.
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In 1865, when he was working as a minor clerk for the government, the Secretary of the Interior fired him after reportedly finding a copy of Leaves of Grass. (Cabinet members in those days evidently had enough time on their hands to snoop through their clerks‘ desk drawers.) 👀🍿#PoetryChallenge2018 #WaltWhitman
Authors who served: Hemingway was an ambulance driver in WWI, Whitman tended the wounded during the American Civil War, Tolkien was a British soldier in WWI, Salinger stormed the beaches at D-Day during WWII, Wharton became a war correspondent in Europe during WWII, and Dahl was a fighter pilot in WWII. #inmemoriam #maybookflowers
I'm getting psyched for PSU's annual marathon read! So thrilled that Whitman poems will be closing out the event (an occurrence I'm sure has quite a lot to do with my poetry professor being the dean of the English department and his favorite poet being Whitman) Anyone have a favorite Whitman poem?
And this is what happens when a philosophy takes over your life...and your to be read list. Solvitur ambulando.
The Portable Walt Whitman | 
