From the Brooklyn Heights Association: On Thursday, July 1, as part of our Centennial Celebration, the BHA will collaborate with ISSUE Project Room for a special outdoor performance, “I Do Not Doubt I Am Limitless: Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn.” This free event will channel the psychedelic spirit of poet, journalist, humanist and Brooklynite Walt Whitman, set […]
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Heights Couple Host Whitman Birthday Celebration Wednesday Evening
David Fuller and Judith Jarosz, Montague Street residents and Executive Director and Producing Artistic Director, respectively, of Theater Ten Ten, are curating hosting The Walt Whitman Project, their seventh annual celebration of the anniversary of the publication of the third edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, this Wednesday evening at 7:00 (doors open at […]
Walt Whitman: the First Beatnik?
It’s not a great stretch to see stylistic, and perhaps even thematic, similarities between, say, Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”. The relationship between the poetry of the nineteenth century Bard of Brooklyn (see some local folks reciting Whitman’s verse here) and that of the Beats a century later is […]
Area Folks Read Whitman
O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn! from Heather Quinlan on Vimeo. Brooklyn Heights resident Heather Quinlan has created a short video featuring Brooklynites reading Walt Whitman’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. It’s great stuff. Watch and enjoy.
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