The Veterans Book Club will be meeting next Thursday, March 11 at 5:30 on Zoom to discuss Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman. Please consider joining us for a stimulating discussion. Dr. Tom Murphy from the History department will be giving us some historical context, and Dr. Jake Mattox will talk about the literary importance of these poems.
The poems are short, and were inspired both by Whitman’s patriotic response to the Civil War, and by his experiences tending to the wounded as a volunteer nurse in Civil War military hospitals. He also had brothers that served. The poems are available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8801/8801-h/8801-h.htm Don’t feel like you need to read them all in order to participate. Pick a couple of favorites and come with your comments and questions.
Please contact Rhonda Culbertson, rculbert@iusb.edu to get the Zoom link