Several places, including Long Island, Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn, can legitimately lay claim to Walt Whitman ... poetry. Though much as I have stared at them, I cannot chance what some images ...

Born in 1819 in Huntington, Long Island, Walt Whitman grew ... letter written to Whitman by Ralph Waldo Emerson commending that book. There are several handwritten poems in honor of the Civil ...

to Song of Myself, Walt Whitman produced some ... the public's help in reviewing thousands of Whitman's handwritten documents, including letters, poems, and other writings. May 31, 2019, marked ...

Walt Whitman in 1869, as photographed by William Kurtz Library of Congress/Feinberg-Whitman Collection Eyeglasses, a walking stick, studio portraits and handwritten drafts of poems are among the ...

In 1860, writing the third of six editions of his book “Leaves of Grass,” behemoth of American poetry Walt Whitman proclaimed ... to create photos that seem to exist within the same psychic ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry ... provided him another medium, besides poetry, to carry on this search. But it seems to have ultimately failed him. Having collected ...

Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt ... Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" develops through the 1850s amid growing animosity between North and South. The poet's handwritten ...

O Walt Whitman ... craved respectability, Whitman let his white hair and white beard grow long and posed for photos designed to burnish his image as the "good gray poet": a combination of benign ...

Yet while once widely popular poets like Rod McKuen or Rupi Kaur have their day and are forgotten, the beatific, Santa Claus-like Walt ... images of the poet’s self-promotion, the blizzard of ...

The Whitman of the title is the great American poet Walt Whitman, represented by his seminal long poem Leaves of Grass. Poets, musicians, and actors from our area will engage with Whitman and his ...