Mark Doty Reads Walt Whitman

Poet Mark Doty reading
Saturday, March 23, 2008
at the
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
March 21-24, 2008
Washington, DC

In this clip Doty reads
Walt Whitman's poems
"Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic A Voice"
The beginning is clipped but Doty begins by describing photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, photographs of Civil War era wounded soldiers.

For more about Split This Rock,
the biennial poetry festival of
poetry of provocation and witness
visit
www.splitthisrock.org

2008's inaugural festival featured poets
Grace Cavalieri, Dennis Brutus, Mark Doty, Naomi Shihab Nye, Brian Gilmore, Alex Olson, Martin Espada, Carolyn Forche, Kenneth Carroll, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Galway Kinnell, Coleman Barks, Pamela Chris August, Princess of Controversy, Joel Dias Porter (aka DJ Renegade), Ishle Yi Park, Steve Kuusisto, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, E. Ethelbert Miller, Alicia Ostriker, Sonia Sanchez, Patricia Smith, Susan Tichy, Pamela Uschuk, Belle Waring.

For more about Split This Rock,
the biennial poetry festival of
poetry of provocation and witness
visit
www.splitthisrock.org

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[smilesawaityou]

That people are still calling on Whitman to inform our times is evidence of his greatness, his timelessness. THanks for this posting. What a unique American treasure is Whitman.