Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was banned from libraries across ...

When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry, I often imagine what he would’ve done if he had a smartphone and an Instagram account. Unlike many of his contemporaries, the poet collected an “abundance ...

"At Last Complete" The last version of Leaves of Grass to appear in Whitman's lifetime contained just minor corrections to the 1882 edition, with new poems bound into the book as annexes ...

We all arise from nature, and to nature, the grass, we return. But, and here is Whitman’s crucial paradox, by affirming ourselves as nothing but leaves of grass, we become more than individual ...

But Whitman’s daring originality seems more than a mere response to Emerson’s demands. It is clear he thought of his book of poems, Leaves of Grass, as an experimental project. He took the ...

Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass on Whitman’s landmark book of poetry, "Leaves of Grass.” San Francisco’s Arion Press is one of the country’s last fine book printers creating limited ...

IOWA CITY — It was searching for the name “Jack Engle” in mid-19th-century newspapers that put Zachary Turpin on to the “warm lead” that turned into a “white hot” discovery: A ...

When Walt Whitman began conceiving his great volume of poetry, “Leaves of Grass,” in the 1850s, American democracy was in serious danger over the issue of slavery. As we celebrate National ...

A first edition of poet Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” will be auctioned off Nov. 15 by auction house Skinner and is expected to sell for more than $30,000, according to Devon Eastland ...

"At Last Complete" The last version of Leaves of Grass to appear in Whitman's lifetime contained just minor corrections to the 1882 edition, with new poems bound into the book as annexes ...