The exhibition Poet of the Future will celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Walt Whitman by sharing rare books and manuscripts from Rutgers University Libraries’ collections. To mark the opening, Karen Karbiener, a Whitman scholar based at New York University, will talk about the portrait in the original edition of Leaves of Grass, and Barbara Henry, printer and poet, will talk about how Whitman’s training as a printer influenced his work as a poet. The program will be followed by a reception.

Alexander Library, Scholarly Communication Center
Rutgers University Library Special Collections and Archives, New Brunswick, NJ,