Featuring readings by three local poets, Regie Cabico, Drew Pisarra, and Tyler French, hosted by D’Real Graham. The poets, influenced by Whitman’s legacy, will read examples of Whitman’s eco-poetry and their own original poems about plants and trees.

This reading will be Sign Language interpreted.

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.