On Saturday, May 3 at 4 p.m., the Clark Art Institute presents “Walt Whitman Comes to the Clark,” a combination film ...

When we look at photographs of authors, especially famous authors, we scan their faces, hoping to find some connection between the way they look and their work. We never find it, or at least I ...

On Long Island, one of the most famous bird enthusiasts of the past — even though we might not think of him as a “birder” per se — is the poet Walt Whitman, who was born in Huntington and ...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

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 ...

I do feel displaced being a mixed-race person growing up in America who did not have access to the languages my mom spoke,” said poet Dani Putney. “My dad forbade her from teaching my brother and ...

Mads Nissen / Panos Pictures Sunflower Seeds ... Today he is considered a literary giant, a sort of Chinese Walt Whitman, required reading in public school curriculums. Nobody talks about the ...

‘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.’ ...

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 ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...