Whitman wrote several poetic responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He came to detest his most famous, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, and in ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd’ Lincoln ...
Mark Bohrer, a former North Andover poet laureate, read “Song of the Open Road,” by Walt Whitman in his poetry book Leaves of Grass, published July 4,1855. It was a time of national division.
“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 ...
In a battle fought in the classroom and not on a field or court, a new study ranks Whitman College No. 1 in the state. Personal finance website WalletHub compared more than 800 higher-ed institutions ...
MacAskill is the author of three previously published poetry collections, including Shadow Blight , winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2022. Her fiction has previously ...
Hundreds of ballots in Whitman County are missing after being processed by the U.S. Postal Service in Spokane. An estimated 200 to 300 ballots have not made it to voters, said Whitman County ...