My readers may think this a practical but curiously prosaic illustration of these powerful ... two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Countless other ...

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 ...

When we look at photographs of authors, especially famous authors, we scan their faces, hoping to find some connection between the way they look and their work. We never find it, or at least I ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried ... occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn ...

The first edition of Whitman’s major poetic work was published ... it is certainly true that many of them aim at a realization in illustration and form of the themes the poet addressed throughout his ...

On Saturday, May 3 at 4 p.m., the Clark Art Institute presents “Walt Whitman Comes to the Clark,” a combination film ...

Pittsburg State University will host author Micah Bateman for the Victor J. Emmett Jr. Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on April ...