(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 ...

Seven years after her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry, the duchess shared a photographic review titled “Our Love Story” to her ...

From Ginsberg’s raw protest to Amanda Gorman’s stirring reflections and Walt Whitman’s enduring imagery, this segment explores how poetry has captured the spirit of the natural world across ...

The programming — which ramps up with Whitman’s 200th birthday ... and scupltures of Walt Whitman. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY) Over the next two months, “Whitman at 200” programming will span an ...

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 spent half his life writing and revising “Leaves of Grass,” his epic poem of a young man’s journey of self-discovery in a young country, America as it grows into a democracy.

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 ...