Walt Whitman Discovery in Washington, DC

February 11, 2015 · by Susan Diffenderfer | in Field Trips, Poets/ Poetry/ Performances | tagged "The Wound Dresser" and memorial at Dupont Station, "The Wound Dresser" by Walt Whitman, Civil War Hospitals and Medical Care, Dupont Circle in Washington DC, Leaves of Grass editions, The AIDS Crisis, Walt Whitman and Homosexuality, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and The Civil War, Walt Whitman as Cargiver during the Civil War | 20 Comments

I have never been one to read a lot of poetry—love to read almost anything, including cereal boxes but was not drawn to verse. That changed somewhat last October when I was visiting Washington, DC with a friend, and we saw a long, chiseled inscription in the curving granite wall surrounding our Metro station at Dupont […]