I asked, “what should we do, when the leaders take us to ruin?” He said, “Wait.”  — Charles Eisenstein Democracy: yearning to ...

‘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.’ ...

Ligon appropriates texts from a variety of literary writers including Walt Whitman, Zora Neal Hurston, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, as well from more popular sources such as the ...

Almost equally moving was the combination of a Walt ... Whitman letter to a suicidal friend and a lush and sweeping setting of a Whitman poem by contemporary American composer Steven Sametz from ...

In honor of that occasion, please enjoy the official state poem of the ... the official state song. But that title was already taken. “I didn’t feel to [sic] bad for myself — when you ...

PHILADELPHIA, March 26 -- Walt Whitman, the poet, died at 6:43 o'clock this evening at his home, 328 Mochel Street, Camden. He began to sink at 4:30, and grew gradually weaker until the end.