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 ...

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 ...

for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to cast a shadow ... Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

Most of her publications to date are poetry. "Walt Whitman Celebrates Himself," included in her select poems, was published in the American Journal of Poetry. It and another of her poems, "Austria by ...

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 ...

The talents of a local poet and songwriters from the Twin Cities and Nebraska will come together Saturday night in Ranier for ...