| Presenter(s): | Dejia Marie James |
| Date: | August 20, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm |
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On this special episode of The Public Good, we introduce Whitman, Buffalo a celebration of poetry and community.
Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) and the Calamus Project worked with filmmaker Steve Rosenthal to film representatives from 20 PPG partner organizations doing three things: describing themselves and their work; talking about PPG’s 20 principles (eight assets and twelve challenges facing Buffalo); and reciting a passage from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.
“Song of Myself” is one of the world’s greatest poems. In an earthy, open style, Whitman celebrates democracy, love, and radical inclusion. Since its first publication in 1855, “Song of Myself” has moved people all over the world with its radiant vision and “barbaric yawp.”
Whitman, Buffalo was inspired by Whitman, Alabama: a project of filmmaker Jennifer Crandall, who will be visiting Buffalo this fall as part of the exhibition “Embracing Earth: Burchfield & Whitman” at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
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