Topic: Walking With Whitman: Edgar Carlson and Community Poets
Time: Friday, December 4, 2020 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
WWBA is delighted to present Walking With Whitman: A Virtual Poetry Reading with Poet Edgar Carlson and Open Mic. This is the 10th season of Poetry in Performance: Walking With Whitman, hosted by Writer-in-Residence George Wallace. The signature series continues to bring the most intriguing figures in contemporary literature on the national scene paired with local poets on the Walt Whitman Stage. Join us for this exciting event!
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$5 suggested donation
Though we are now open for site tours, WWBA is still suffering the effects of closing March through August, which cause a severe loss in tourist and event revenue. Your online contributions have never been more vital to sustaining our efforts. We can keep our weekly online programs and community engagement going only with your support. Contributions in any amount are greatly appreciated! To donate, please use the link below. Thank you! https://www.waltwhitman.org/join-donate/donate/
Edgar Carlson is a landscape-gardener, poet, taxi driver and grandfather. A resident of Farmingdale, he studied creative writing at Adelphi University’s Graduate Fine Arts program, and has served on the Nassau County Poet Laureate committee.
Community Poets:
Monica Leak says the wonder of words, the spin of a story to birth, form and to create all of these weave the wonderful web of her career and life as a speech language pathologist, librarian, an author, editor, contributing writer, and preacher.
Britney Russell (Bexpressivesoul) is a 23-year-old International Poet that sprang from the fruitful soil of Jamaica. Poetry has perpetually been one with her since childhood. She can be found on any social media platform as Bexpressivesoul.
Samantha Kolber’s poems have appeared in Oddball Magazine, Mom Egg Review, Tiny Seed Journal, Rise Up Review, Hunger Mountain, and other journals and anthologies. Learn more and listen to her poems at samanthakolber.com.
Kim Ward is a multimedia artist and the founder of The Vermont Playwrights Circle.
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Topic: “‘For you whoever you are’: Transcribing Whitman Manuscripts Online By Democratic Crowdsourcing” with Barbara Bair
Time: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
WWBA is delighted to present “‘For you whoever you are’: Transcribing Whitman Manuscripts Online By Democratic Crowdsourcing” with Barbara Bair. Join us for this exciting discussion!
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Barbara Bair discusses getting up close and personal to Whitman’s creative process by participating in the Library of Congress By the People Walt Whitman online crowdsourcing project. Learn how to try your hand at transcribing Whitman’s words from his drafts and musings, or review transcriptions of Whitman’s handwritten and printed works from the Library’s digitized collections. Share ideas for teachers to use the online site in a virtual classroom, or for personal browsing, engagement, and enjoyment.
The Whitman campaign includes three projects so far. Find it here: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/walt-whitman/
$5 suggested donation
Though we are now open for site tours, WWBA is still suffering the effects of closing March through August, which cause a severe loss in tourist and event revenue. Your online contributions have never been more vital to sustaining our efforts. We can keep our weekly online programs and community engagement going only with your support. Contributions in any amount are greatly appreciated! To donate, please use the link below. Thank you! https://www.waltwhitman.org/join-donate/donate/
Barbara Bair is a curator or Literature, Culture and Arts in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, and a specialist for digital humanities projects. A member of the organizing committee for the 2019 Washington, D.C., Whitman 200 Festival, Barbara was lead curator for the “Whitman Bicentennial” exhibit and “Walt Whitman Open House” public display featuring Whitman materials from throughout the Library’s collections. Along with a poetry program at the Folger Library, the Open House served as the finale for the citywide celebration of Whitman’s birth.
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Jack Coulehan, MD discusses The Talking Cure, his latest book publication. Click to watch here!
Jayne’s Hill Hike with Andrew Rimby: a guided hike to the highest point on Long Island to see the hike Walt Whitman took when visiting his childhood home in Long Island, New York. Click here to watch!
Virtual Open Mic Night. Featuring: Mary Makofske, Maggie Bloomfield,Bill Ratner, Emily-Sue Sloane, J R Turek Click here to Watch!
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Poetry Reading with Distinguished Poet Matt Pasca.
