Past Event
Monday, October 7, 2019, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Who Was Walt Whitman?
5998 Alcalà Park, San Diego, 92110
Cost: Free
How did a poet with no advanced education and no previous literary distinction come to write the great poem of democracy, Song of Myself? University of Virginia Professor Mark Edmundson discusses Whitman's poetry and vision of democracy in the context of our current crisis of democracy. Part of the Illume Speaker series, event takes place in the Manchester Hall Auditorium. Email [email protected].