MusicIC Festival | Whitman's "Lilacs"

As part of the City of Literature's annual MusicIC festival, University of Iowa Professor and Walt Whitman scholar Ed Folsom will discuss Whitman's poem, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." That poem is the basis for George Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning composition, "Lilacs," which will be performed as part of the MusicIC festival. Folsom will discuss musician's love for the poem.

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