Leaves of Grass

**Advocate** · 12 Feb 2010, 07:07 PM

Directed by Tim Blake Nelson.

**Frogacuda** · 13 Feb 2010, 11:09 PM

I've been looking forward to this since all of the positive press about the premiere in Toronto.

**flux=rad** · 13 Feb 2010, 11:17 PM

Shit, you got my hopes up. I thought they were finally making a movie out of the book.

**YellerDog** · 14 Feb 2010, 04:33 PM

There is no way I'm seeing Edward Norton acting opposite Edward Norton.

**Melf** · 15 Feb 2010, 01:25 PM

This was supposed to come out 5 years ago, but both Nortons kept wanting to rewrite the script and couldn't agree.

**raniasumone** · 17 Feb 2010, 04:33 AM

On July 4, 1855, an anonymous poem entitled Leaves of Grass was published in Brooklyn. Nothing like it had ever been seen before: big, sprawling, sexual, democratic, ecstatic, both rough and gentle. It was, its author claimed, "America singing."In commemoration of this landmark literary event, and in celebration of Whitman's large-hearted vision, the Aurora Forum hosts a dramatic reading of "Song of Myself" directed by Kay Kostopoulos. After the performance—accompanied by music and historic images—a panel of Whitman scholars and poets will discuss the poem's meanings and what it says about democratic ideals today. Facsimile editions of the 1855 version of "Song of Myself" will be given to all who attend.