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At Walt Whitman home, Super Poem Sunday

People walk toward the Old Walt Whitman house

Photo credit: Newsday, 2008 / Ana P. Gutierrez

Banners of well-known poets like Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes hung from the wood-paneled ceilings, as poets sang, rhymed and read their own original works.

While football fans were readying beer, chips and chicken wings for the Super Bowl, poets at the Walt Whitman birthplace in West Hills were doing the same for the fourth  Super Poem Sunday slam.

“We’re having team spirit,”...

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