(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry, I often imagine what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn all about the 200-plus-year history of Presidents Day and how it has evolved from a simple celebration of George Washington’s birthday to a national ... and contrasting two of Walt Whitman’s ...

Besides being Walt Whitman’s birthday, May 31 marks the 150th anniversary of his ... sang a song of her own composition based on Whitman’s Lincoln poem “O Captain! My Captain!” Whitman “seemed to be ...

Walt Whitman Birthplace Association State Historic Site in Huntington Station hosted a time capsule ceremony on Aug. 5 in honor of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. Conducted by the WWBA’s board of ...

They ate cake, toured his former home and--of course--read poems to mark Walt Whitman’s 203rd birthday. The celebration, held on Wednesday and hosted by the Walt Whitman Association, takes place ...

Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitman ... against the poetry book even cost Whitman his federal ...

The poem, "Inheritance," is about what it ... Since then, he's read at the University of Pennsylvania's celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy at an ...