Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance

Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance Featuring Joseph Bruchac with Patti Tana.

The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) is pleased to present on Saturday, May 5th its latest installment in the Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance 2012 poetry series.

The reading will feature Joseph Bruchac and Patti Tana. Hosted by George Wallace, Walt Whitman Birthplace Writer-in-Residence, the performance will take place from 7-9 PM with a wine and cheese reception beginning at 6:15 PM. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door.

Joseph Bruchac is the Founder and Executive Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center and The Greenfield
Review Press, and editor of a number of highly praised anthologies of contemporary poetry, including Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back, Breaking Silence and Returning the Gift. His works have appeared in over 500 publications,
notably American Poetry Review, Cricket, Aboriginal Voices, National Geographic, Parabola and Smithsonian Magazine.
He is also the author of more than 120 books for adults and children. His honors include a Rockefeller Humanities
fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship for Poetry, the Knickerbocker Award, the Hope S.

Dean Award for Notable Achievement in Children's Literature, the Virginia Hamilton Award, and the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. Patti Tana is the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Long Island Poet of the Year 2009. She is Professor Emerita of English at Nassau Community College (SUNY), editor of the Songs of Seasoned Women poetry anthology, and an associate editor of the Long Island Quarterly. Patti is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently Any Given Day (2011). In his Trinidad Guardian review, Dr. Glenville Ashby writes, "Any Given Day beckons us -- in diverse ways -- to find meaning and value in all our experiences." Ashby concludes from her poems that "whatever life offers, Tana accepts graciously....Life is ever rich and infinite -- even in the face of human vulnerability."

Now in it’s second season, Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance is a very popular series of performances and presentations by some of the most intriguing figures in contemporary literature and the arts on the national scene, paired with respected voices on the regional scene. A subscription for the remaining six readings in the 2012 series can be purchased for $60.

For additional information, please visit www.waltwhitman.org. The Walt Whitman Birthplace is a
New York State Historic Site open to the public and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.