Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park

The Walt Whitman Project, an arts organization dedicated to producing programs about the life and work of America's great writer Walt Whitman, celebrates the poet's 191th birthday on May 31st and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Whitman's 'Calamus' poems with a series of events, including on this coming Sunday, May 23rd in Fort Greene Park.

May 23, Sunday at 1:00 p.m. "Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park" A stroll sponsored by Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project

Walk around Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park, a greensward that owes its existence in large part to Walt Whitman's editorials written for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The afternoon includes readings of Whitman's prose and poetry and discussions about the park, the Wallabout Martyrs and the monument dedicated to their memory. This event will conclude with a walk up Myrtle Avenue to 99 Ryerson, the last existing building in Brooklyn that was a residence of Whitman.

Greg Trupiano, Artistic Director of The Walt Whitman Project will be the guide for Sunday's tour.

Special guests: Nicole Mitchell, mezzo-soprano & Brandon Snook, tenor.

• Meet at the Visitors Center, top of the hill, Fort Greene Park • Enter at Myrtle Avenue, Washington Park, or DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn • FREE event / rain or shine • Information & Reservations: 718-391-8824 / http://www.whitmanproject.org

Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park is sponsored by the Walt Whitman Project and the Fort Greene Park Conservancy.