In Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” he writes, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and end.” In celebration of the poet’s 200th birthday, members of Poetry Atlanta and The Queer Literary Festival have partnered to recite Whitman’s poems- from beginning to end.
The event will take place at the First Existentialist Congregation in Candler Park this Friday evening at 7:00 p.m.
Atlanta poets Rupert Fike and Kodac Harrison stopped by the studio to speak with “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes about the event.
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