The Performances
An Evening of Walt Whitman ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Walt Whitman received renewed notoriety when it was discovered that our former President had given his intern a copy of Walt Whitman's "dirty poems." It has been a long time since Leaves of Grass was looked upon censoriously by the Guardians of Public Morality, who had Whitman fired from a government job for having written it. Whitman revolutionized American poetry with his rejection of meter and rhyme as defining characteristics of verse. MMSC's very own William (Bill) Connors will perform selections from Whitman's poetry and other writings, providing a unique glimpse of the passage of this long-time favorite from a brash, excessively exuberant shouter of the value of the individual American to the lovingly wise and optimistic man who experienced the near collapse of his beloved nation, to the real truths of war as only the wounded and dying can reveal it, and to the death of his beloved President, Abraham Lincoln. Join us as we take a new look at this man whose work was a seminal force in American letters.
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