After their successful collected verse tribute to Emily Dickinson, the Belle of Amherst, Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro are paying another visit to a legendary American poet. The husband and wife ...

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Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. On Saturday, September 28, Pro Musica, Chatter, and the Academy for the Love of Learning present a ...

Santa Rosa poet and playwright, former New York professional actor and retired advertising writer -- doesn't claim to write like Walt Whitman. But writing about Whitman is a different matter. Beckman ...

Though delayed because of the pandemic, members of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association will finally seal a time capsule —with artifacts, written historic texts and books — to commemorate the ...

The poet wandered for himself and for his various day jobs with New York City newspapers. Some of his haunts are still standing; most have been swept away with time. An 1853 daguerreotype portrait of ...

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, “Poet of the Body,” an exhibit featuring the first edition of “Leaves of Grass,” opened at the Providence Athenaeum Oct. 15. On Saturday, the ...

Ready to press play on 'Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age' right from your couch? Trying to locate where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to watch this L.C. Stoumen directed movie can be a bit of a ...

THIS new biographical approach to Walt Whitman provides a valuable catalytic agent to reduce our confused thinking about politics and literature to rational elements. It is based upon painstaking and ...

Jalloh, a 14-year-old Muslim immigrant from Guinea, may seem like a surprising conduit for the writing of Whitman, a long-dead queer socialist poet from Brooklyn, but such incongruity is the active ...

Walt Whitman is born to Louisa and Walter Whitman in Huntington Township on Long Island, New York. He is the second of eight surviving children. His father will struggle to support the family as a ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics ...