Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

O'Connor's pamphlet was followed, two years later (1867), by John Burroughs's Walt Whitman ... the free treatment of which he had declared essential to his scheme of exhibiting in his poems ...

Yet Whitman found another way to serve his country. A Nation Divided Whitman opposed slavery and supported the free soil platform ... in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother.

At 21, Walt Whitman taught kids in Southold, but it’s said he was charged with sodomy, tarred and feathered and driven out of ...

On Saturday, October 26, from 4-7pm, Compagnia de'Colombari’s Whitman on Walls! (WoW!) will come to Queens in collaboration ...

The proliferation of new poetry and poetry programs is astounding by any historical measure. Just under a thousand new collections of verse are ... Today Walt Whitman's challenge "To have great ...

Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

“I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like, nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, and friends of mine that are, like ...

246 Old Walt Whitman Road ... Interpretive Center Here visitors can delve deeply into Whitman’s life and poetry through a series of engaging exhibits that trace the poet’s development from ...