Walt Whitman Tribute Evening
| When: |
Wednesday 11 February 2009 |
| Where: |
Lensic Performing Arts Center |
| What: | Readings & Conversations event |
About this Event
Additional photos from this event are available on Flickr.
Audio from this Event
Walt Whitman Tribute Evening featuring Eamon Grennan, Major Jackson, and Pattiann Rogers with Michael Silverblatt | Duration: 1:40:13
Eamon Grennan
Eamon Grennan has said, “As far as I’m concerned, poetry is about elegy. Every poem is a memory of some kind, a celebratory elegy. Poems are like shells. Something is gone and that’s why you write.”...
Pattiann Rogers
Pattiann Rogers is considered one of America’s finest contemporary poets, writing densely detailed, thickly textured poems describing the natural world and one’s place in it that are informed by a...
Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem...
Michael Silverblatt
Michael Silverblatt, described as “the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their work,” is the host of KCRW’s Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio program...
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