May 17, 2019 Excerpt from Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body

May 17, 2019 Excerpt from Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric," and my poem "With Apologies to Walt"

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Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago this month. To celebrate, in this installment of my podcast Music I Once Could Dance To, I read an excerpt from one of my favorite poems from Whitman's Leaves of Grass, "I Sing the Body Electric." I then follow up with a poem of mine that was inspired by Whitman's work. Titled "With Apologies to Walt," it opens with the line "I sing the body hydraulic." Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-beckemeyer/message

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