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 ...

is one of the most memorable quotes from the movie. But even without its mention in the film, Walt Whitman’s poem deserves a spot on our list of the most famous poems ever written. Penned in ...

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poets were putting it into their poems. I mean, it has appeared in everything from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” to Walt Whitman’s famous elegy for Abraham Lincoln. This famous bird was ...

Walt Whitman was wrong. The speaker in his 1865 poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”—presumably Whitman himself or his proxy—recalls tiring of a science lecture and wandering off to stare at the ...

To prove it, she's given a book of Walt Whitman poems. Rather than just read from the beginning, she decides to make a moment ...

Hope is text messages with your kid, when they’re telling you real things line by line. Hope is the click of a seatbelt when you pull into the frenzy of the world. Hope is the three solid blue lights ...

‘He is America,’ Ezra Pound observed of Walt Whitman ... ‘America is a poem in our eyes,’ Emerson declaimed. ‘Its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.’ ...

Throughout his lengthy artistic career, history, poetry, philosophy, myth ... Kiefer’s thought is not far from the lines of Van Gogh who, in 1888, inspired by Walt Whitman, wrote ‘just as we take the ...

These are the five Philadelphia-area bridges that NTSB says will need an assessment: Benjamin Franklin Bridge, built in 1926 Delaware River Turnpike Bridge, built in 1956 Walt Whitman Bridge ...