Walt Whitman is profiled on the latest episode of PBS' American Experience. You can watch it free online while you sound your Barbaric yawp or whatever it is you literary weirdoes like to do.
On April 14th, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theater in Washington DC. Lincoln and Whitman were crucial contemporaries at our nation's darkest hour. The latter's famous elegy is analyzed and celebrated here via a Library of Congress webcast.
One of the first books Gwen and I read together when we began dating three years ago was Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days. The bonding we experienced, as well as other poignant memories I have from my travels though life, will keep Whitman forever close to my soul.
