The poet obsessively collected images of himself, foreshadowing both the good and the bad of today’s selfie culture.

And like many people today who snap and post thousands of selfies, Whitman ... number of photos he possessed and the various, contradictory selves they represented. “I meet new Walt Whitmans ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry ... recorded or so concerned with the strategic uses of his pictures and their projective meanings for himself and the public.” ...

"The Life of Chuck," in theaters Friday, is a beautiful and surreal tale of one man's life that touches many others.

Ballard, who wrote “on and off most of his adult life,” only turned to poetry at age 66. That being a mortality-aware time of ...

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