Let’s keep adding to this list! Langston Hughes, “I, Too” Ezra Pound, Evil Godfather of Modernism, “A Pact” Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” Sharon Olds, “Nurse Whitman” Sharon Olds. “The Language of the Brag” Larry Levis, “Whitman” (I do
Camerado, I give you my hand!
Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson believed in the written word not just as an articulation of one’s inner thoughts but, fundamentally, as a way to reach and even touch other people. They lived in an era that saw the

