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'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 ...

His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman ... where the future president occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and ...

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 ...

As someone who studies and writes about the intersection of medicine and the humanities, I often find myself returning to the ...

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They will share their words and poems to speak back to Walt Whitman in his own city. Walt’s dream of multitudes, of being “old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,” still inspires ...

Charles Cutler of Hawley first became fascinated by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in the early 1960s when Cutler was in ...

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 ...

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T S Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Dorothea Lasky, the only living poet on the list. The study – led by Pittsburgh University postdoctoral researcher ...

The Whitman Tradition is based on American poet Walt Whitman, an artist whose work changed the face of American poetics. Poets in the Whitman tradition generally use free verse and rhyme to ...