During the month when America celebrates its independence, Katherine Hastings celebrates one of America's most famous poets, Walt Whitman. You'll hear a wide selection of poems from Leaves of Grass as well as some music inspired by Whitman's poetry. Born on Long Island, New York in 1819, Whitman was a major innovative voice in world literature, creating a new kind of poetry that confused the majority of the literary world at the time but remains unsurpassed in its passion and scope. Ralph Waldo Emerson called the first edition of Leaves of Grass "... the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." And it still remains "as contemporary as tomorrow."

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