Mark Doty and Walt Whitman

In his new book, What Is the Grass, poet MARK DOTY traces the life and work of Walt Whitman and, in the process, examines his own experience as a writer. In this part memoir, part biography, Doty explores Whitman’s life, sexuality and American identity, reaching back in time and weaving a a kind of conversation between two poets centuries apart. He joins us to discuss what he discovered about Whitman, his own work, and what it means to be a gay man.