Celebrating Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

from The College of New Jersey (with thanks to JforJames of the NewPoetry list for pointing out the story):
“The Sesquicentennial Symposium,” September 22-24, 2005
The College of New Jersey will host a three-day symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, an event that coincides with the College’s own sesquicentennial celebration. The symposium will include a wide variety of activities and events to which the public is warmly invited:

• Scholarly panels on Whitman
• Poetry readings
• An Art Faculty Exhibition of works inspired by passages from Leaves of Grass
• A series of roundtable discussions focused on teaching Leaves of Grass in secondary school classrooms
• The Fred Hersch Ensemble performing Hersch’s jazz composition “Leaves of Grass”
• Stephen Collins performing in “Unlaunched Voices”

Related articles:
Our reference page on Walt Whitman, with book links