"Lilacs and Letters" featuring American Poet, Walt Whitman

We proudly partner with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum to present "Lilacs and Letters", a 15-minute play followed by a 30-minute presentation entitled, "The Uncanny Immortality of Whitman". This presentation is written and performed by Zaxxson Nation, performing as Whitman.

This performance is suitable for all audiences.

A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit the Gustave Koerner House Committee.

About the Play:

A single actor alone on a stage, portraying one of America's most influential poets as he processes the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and tends to wounded Civil War soldiers.

The play is set at the Armory Square Military Hospital in Washington, D.C., in the shadows of an early morning in 1865. Poet Walt Whitman, a hospital volunteer, sits among the sleeping wounded as he reflects on national grief and puts the finishing touches on poetry eulogizing President Lincoln.

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