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 ...

All the noise and music of this great heaving muchness can be felt in the best American poetry, and the reason why has a lot to do with Walt Whitman’s great “Leaves of Grass.’’ If the ...

When I first read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in college, I knew I had found a soul mate. Long before the discovery of black holes, he wrote: "The bright suns I see, and the dark suns I cannot ...

Bonhams will feature a copy of Leaves of Grass signed by Walt Whitman at its New York auction of extraordinary books and manuscripts on March 12, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the poet’s ...

In an old industrial building in San Francisco, the lines of American poet Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” are being printed exactly as they were when the first edition was published in 1855.

This radicalism of Walt Whitman surely contributes to why, 200 years after his birth, he remains the most important and influential of American poets. Whitman's first edition of "Leaves of Grass ...