Whitman Tribute on Beltway

BELTWAY PUBLISHES ONLINE TRIBUTE TO WHITMAN’S LEGACY

In 1860, Walt Whitman wrote in “Poets to Come”: “Arouse! For you must justify me.”

Beltway: A Poetry Quarterly is proud to announce an entire issue of the journal devoted to the living legacy of Walt Whitman.  Thirty-eight contemporary poets who live in the Mid-Atlantic region contributed poems about Whitman’s life and works, poems written in the style of Whitman, and poems revisiting Whitman’s recurring poetic themes.  As Saundra Rose Maley writes in the issue’s introduction, “The poems in this issue do justify and honor Whitman…in high seriousness,  and in fun.”

It is co-sponsored with The Washington Friends of Walt Whitman and presented in conjunction with a city-wide festival, “DC Celebrates Whitman: 150 Years of Leaves of Grass.”  The Festival includes poetry readings, publications, a walking tour, a guided meditation program, and more.  Festival information can be found here.