For Brian Clements's inspired project of annotating the two hundred years since Walt Whitman was born, two hundred poets and writers have contributed poems or reflections, which Brian -- in conjunction with North American Review -- has posted daily since Walt's birthday (May 31). I got to be #198 in a distinguished list that Martín Espada kicked off.
Convinced as I am that the last line of "Song of Myself" would make an excellent first line, I wrote a poem that begins and ends with "I stop somewhere waiting for you." Click here and you'll read it. And be sure to check out Brian's introduction to the project and the entries by such as Julia Alvarez, Ellen Bass, Maxine Chernoff, Richard Deming, the aforementioned Señor Espada, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Todd Gitlin, and Robert Hass, to limit myself to names beginning with the first eight letters of the alphabet. -- DL
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