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SUMMARY:Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU
 )\, 'Whitman\, Censorship\, and the Question of Truly Free Verse'
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DESCRIPTION:Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deli
 ver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'Whitman\, Censorship\, and the Qu
 estion of Truly Free Verse'\n\nVenue: Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre \
 n\nOrganised by Dr. Gordon Fraser \n\n---\n\nKaren Karbiener is an Ameri
 can scholar\, writer\, curator\, and cultural activist and has been teac
 hing at New York University since 2003. Winner of the Kluge Fellowship a
 t the Library of Congress and a Fulbright recipient\, she has published 
 widely on Whitman\, including an edition of Leaves of Grass\, two audiob
 ooks on the poet’s life and influence\, a book introducing Whitman’s poe
 try to children\, and a collaboration with illustrator Brian Selznick on
  an experiential edition of Live Oak\, with Moss\, Whitman’s secret same
 -sex love poems. She was the co-curator with Susan Tane of Poet of the B
 ody: New York’s Walt Whitman (Grolier Club\, NY\; 2019) and is the autho
 r of a book based on the exhibition (University of Chicago Press\, 2022)
 .\n\nAs an active public scholar\, she is invested in bringing complex l
 iterary content to a diverse public. A native New Yorker\, Karen is pres
 ident and a founding member of the Walt Whitman Initiative\, a NYC-based
  501c3 nonprofit organization serving as a think tank and enabler of poe
 try-related events and community activism\, including the open-access Ta
 ne Poetry Library at South Street Seaport (inaugurated in 2022) and the 
 organization of New York’s annual marathon reading of Whitman’s epic “So
 ng of Myself” (in its 21st year in 2024). She has led walking tours of W
 hitman's New York for over two decades and is currently completing a bio
 graphy of the poet.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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