Around Campus Walt Whitman Journal launches Camden poet Archived article from Nov 15, 2004 By Cathy Karmilowicz

Credit: Cathy Karmilowicz The launch of the third electronic issue of “The Mickle Street Review” (MSR), a journal dedicated to Whitman and American studies, was recently held beside a bronze statue of the Good Grey Poet admiring a butterfly in the Armitage Hall lobby on the Camden campus. As laptops and a big screen displayed the newly revamped Web site, contemporary Camden poet Rocky Wilson dressed as his predecessor and bellowed “Song of Myself” as if Whitman were still alive today. From left to right, graduate English student and MSR managing editor Jesse Merandy is joined by Geoffrey Sill, professor of English and MSR founder, Evan Roskos, graduate English student, Walt Whitman, (as portrayed by Wilson) and Tyler Hoffman, associate professor of English and current MSR editor, at the special launch. Formerly headquartered at Walt Whitman’s home in Camden, “The Mickle Street Review” – at micklestreet.rutgers.edu – is named for the thoroughfare (now Martin Luther King Boulevard) where Whitman lived for two decades before his death in 1892. The journal, maintained by the Rutgers-Camden English program, features poetry, critical essays and book reviews on Whitman. Its goal is to encourage Whitman research that emphasizes visual, audio and other interactive learning tools to engage a larger spectrum of scholars and fans online.

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