We are so excited to share our lineup of poets and poems for the Whitman on Walls! event on campus Sat 10/26.
We plan to feature 20 original poems, written by members of the St. John’s community, in dialogue with Walt Whitman.
The poems come from all areas of our community, including English majors, non-majors taking English classes, graduate students and facutly.
We are all excited to take part in this event, staged by Karin Coonrod and the Compagnia de’ Colombari.
Here’s the list of poems, including two “Group Poems” written jointly by students in two sections of English 1100c, the University Core course of the English department.
Group Poem #1, “Where am I Going?”
Group Poem #2, “I Forget”
Steven Alvarez, “impalpable sustenance of me”
Megan Chapman, “Song of Ourselves”
Michele Cicillini, “Days of Awe”
Lee Ann Brown, “Come All You Whitmanics”
Ryan M. Flaherty, “I Celebrate Myself”
Sean Griffin, “Stop walking the dogs and”
Marqueielis Guzman, “I am from the Dominican Republic”
Dana Livingston, “cavity”
Kiara Mapp, “Walt Whitman’s Melodies”
Sally Mellina, “Song of the Inferior Mind”
Steve Mentz, “The sea sees me feelingly”
Stephen Paul Miller, “Walt Whitman in Prague”
Yasmin Mohamed, “We Need to be Set Free”
Kelly Mooney, “The Syllogistic Divide”
Tess Patalano, “Crossing NYC Ferry with Whitman”
Sabrina Sarwar, “Mawt”
Ruhin Talukdar, “Beyond the Animal Farm”
Peter Vanderberg, “Starlings”
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