Whitman, Alabama

Released: 2017-02-06

Runtime: None minutes

Episode Overview

97-year-old Virginia Mae reads the poem’s first verse and sets the tone for the entire project.

Series Overview

For two years, filmmaker Jennifer Crandall crisscrossed Alabama, inviting people to look into a camera and share a part of themselves through the words of Walt Whitman's poem “Song of Myself.” A documentary in 52 parts - each representing one of the 52 verses penned by Whitman in 1855.