In the style of our popular Bloomsday reading of Ulysses, Loyalty Books will read the entirety of Leaves of Grass with community poets, writers, booksellers, and Whitman fans from start to finish!

Refreshments will be served.

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.