Karen Karbiener will discuss Walt Whitman& rsquo\;s upbringing and his revolutionary work\, Leaves of Grass.
\nKaren Karbiener is a scholar\, writer\, curator\, and cultural activist an d has been teaching at New York University since 2003. Winner of the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and a Fulbright recipient\, she has published widely on Whitman\, including an edition of \;Leaves of Gra ss\, two audiobooks on the poet&rsquo\;s life and influence\, and a book i ntroducing Whitman&rsquo\;s poetry to children. As an active public schola r\, she is invested in bringing complex literary content to a diverse publ ic. A native New Yorker\, Karen is president and a founding member of the Walt Whitman Initiative\, a New York City-based nonprofit organization ser ving as a think tank and enabler of poetry-related events and community ac tivism\, including the open-access Tane Poetry Library and New York&rsquo\ ;s annual marathon reading of Whitman&rsquo\;s epic &ldquo\;Song of Myself .&rdquo\; She has led walking tours of Whitman's New York for over two dec ades and is currently completing a biography of the poet.
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