Join members of the Boston Association of PBK for a book discussion via Zoom, scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, at 7:30 pm. (Please note we are meeting on Tuesday!)

Guests of participants are welcome and please come even if you haven’t finished (or even started!) the book.

The discussion will be on this book: Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by David S. Reynolds (671 pages)

In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age.

Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and…