The 5th Annual
Professor John Howard Birss, Jr.
Memorial Lecture
Walt Whitman's Leaves of
Grass After 150 Years:
What We
Still Don't Know about One of America's Most Famous Books.
Guest
Lecturer: Dr. Ed Folsom,
Carver
Professor,
Department
of English, University of Iowa
February 15, 2005
5:00 P.M. - Room 157
Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences
LIBRARY EXHIBITION
Featuring
THE URI WHITMAN COLLECTION
February 1 - March
12, 2005
Roger Williams University Library
Sponsored by the John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Fund
Prepared by Christine Fagan, Collection Development Librarian, Roger
Williams University and
Sarina Wyant, Assistant
Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, University of Rhode Island
View Photographs from the Exhibit
PUBLIC BOOK DISCUSSION
Sponsored by the University Honors Program
Lead by Professor Dianne Comiskey,
Department of Creative Writing, Roger Williams University
February 10, 2005 4:00 P.M.
Mary Tefft White Cultural Center
Roger Williams University Library
