Multitasking Interferes with Blogging This Week!

(Salut au Monde, Walt Whitman University of Delaware Library)

Dear Friends…I know we are all in the same boat, paddling as fast as we can and trying not to keep the boat from sinking. Today I find myself bailing water as a result of too many commitments happening at once.

I know I promised a blog about the next stop on my journey through Greece….Mykonos…but I will have to put that off for the next two weeks to make room for a project almost a year in the works and is now finally happening. What follows is some of the copy from a flyer advertising the project in which I am currently immersed:

“The influx of immigrants to the United States over the past several decades has brought new attention to the question: Who is an insider and who is an outsider in our nation?” (Barbara Suter)

About the Project
“With so much debate taking place in our nation about the pros and cons of immigration, this presentation could not be more timely. During a week-long in-school workshop, an eleventh-grade English Regents class from Hicksville High School, which includes both English-speaking and English Language Learners, will be introduced to the poem Salut au Monde by Walt Whitman. The culmination of the workshop will include a tour of the Walt Whitman Birthplace. The day will conclude with a student performance of the verses the students have written, in the style of Whitman, expressing their own thoughts and feelings about being an outsider or insider in America.

Join us in this unique celebration of the poetry of Walt Whitman and of the students who will be sharing their interpretations of his poetry.”

Wish me luck!!!

(To be continued next week)