Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist and essayist who is considered a central figure in American literature. He is often called the “father of free verse” for ...

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The poetry revolved around another of Cutler’s favorite poets, Walt Whitman. Cutler had been reading Whitman a lot while in Lisbon, he told me. “It was nostalgia for home, but it was also an ...

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If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Original Coverage Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. - A large SWAT and police presence has been reported in the Whitman neighborhood. Police are staging in the area of North Perry Street and East Sanson Avenue.

Irish poet Michael Longley has died aged 85. The acclaimed poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death. Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical ...

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