Poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday is Friday ... Of course, they can pull a volume of Whitman off the shelf and turn to a poem they like, or flip through the pages until they discover a new ...

This year we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman; and by “we” I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. Whitman invented a poetry specific to ...

The programming — which ramps up with Whitman’s 200th birthday ... and scupltures of Walt Whitman. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY) Over the next two months, “Whitman at 200” programming will span an ...

Walt Whitman ... Leaves of Grass, Whitman is fired from his job at Interior. He finds a new job at the attorney general's office. Whitman publishes Drum-Taps, a book of poems on the subject ...

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Calamus is a sequence of poems by Walt Whitman about camaraderie, friendship, and love among men. These innovative short works explore same-sex relationships in ways well ahead of their time and ...

From Ginsberg’s raw protest to Amanda Gorman’s stirring reflections and Walt Whitman’s enduring imagery, this segment explores how poetry has captured the spirit of the natural world across ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected ... a collection of poems forged in harrowing personal experience. Whitman had gone to the front ...

A dramatic recitation of one of Walt Whitman’s poems will be held at the Jackson Center, helping to commemorate the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Submitted photo A dramatic recitation of one ...

Walt Whitman spent half his life writing and revising “Leaves of Grass,” his epic poem of a young man’s journey of self-discovery in a young country, America as it grows into a democracy.

Walt Whitman ... Leaves of Grass, Whitman is fired from his job at Interior. He finds a new job at the attorney general's office. Whitman publishes Drum-Taps, a book of poems on the subject ...