There are father poets and mother poets, poet prophets and poet founders. These three poets, in American English and Chilean Spanish, sired and husbanded and founded American idioms. In them, and from them, we discover the American line, the democratic voice, the liberty to roam through fields and cities, from the heights of Machu Picchu to San Francisco Bay, and to the rivulets in the skin of a blade of grass. 

This is part of the multi-venue, 12-day Walt Whitman 200 Festival, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s most significant and enduring poets, who was a resident of Washington, DC for ten years during and after the Civil War.