Walt Whitman's Life #5: Building Houses & Writing Poems

An episode from 3/28/21: This is the fifth in a series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. Tonight, I continue with ⁠⁠Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet⁠⁠, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass. Here, we move closer to the writing of Leaves of Grass, which coincided with Whitman and his family's work in building and selling houses in Brooklyn. Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].