The poems “are a really important corrective to our caricatures ... who curated a display on “Live Oak” for the recent exhibition Encompassing Multitudes: The Song of Walt Whitman at the Albert and ...

"Walt Whitman, an American": so the poet introduced himself in the first poem of his first collection, and so he continues to be read and received, by fellow Americans and foreigners alike. His ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other publications on the same inexhaustible theme have appeared since ...

Walt Whitman was born in 1819 on Long Island ... Whitman's first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass (1855), featured a unique voice. There was no regular rhyme or rhythm to the lines; they ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... The evolution of a book - and its author. Many of the poems Whitman added to Leaves of Grass in its different editions reflect changes ...

A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward ... holds the world’s largest collection of Whitman-related items ...

Salter of Philadelphia delivered the second and last of his lectures on Walt Whitman last evening ... be accepted in its entirety. And Whitman's motto in poetry was "Nature without check." ...

This park honors Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet, journalist, and native New Yorker. Whitman’s vision of an optimistic and self-reliant America surpassed traditional Victorian boundaries and influenced ...

International Falls native Matt Rasmussen has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Walt Whitman Award, the Academy of American Poets announced this week. “I didn’t expect to win this ...