Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

It's the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman, the poet best known for his landmark work Leaves of Grass... and the guy who anonymously wrote glowing reviews of his own writing in the newspapers of the day.  Plus: Plymouth, North Carolina is hosting the North Carolina Black Bear Festival, which makes sense because the city bills itself as the originator of National Black Bear Day.  "Walt Whitman and His Poems" by Walt Whitman (Whitman Archive) “Promoting Himself” (Library of Congress)  North Carolina Black Bear Festival  Cool Weird Awesome is listener-supported! Back this show on Patreon today! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message