A CT history professor revisits the memorable election of 1884, 'one of the dirtiest in U.S. history,' which inspired a poem ...

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town ... he called the "ballad style" of poetry, by which he meant poetry ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

They will share their words and poems to speak back to Walt Whitman in his own city. Walt’s dream of multitudes, of being “old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,” still inspires ...

Walt Whitman was a late bloomer ... for its frank sexuality and innovative style. Whitman more or less invented what is now called “free verse”—poetry that does not use rhyme and meter.

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 ...

When I read Walt Whitman’s poetry as a teenager, I did not know how close to my bone his music struck, not until a day in my early thirties when I found myself standing on a beach north of San ...

Appearing in Walt Whitman’s 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass ... In “Along with Youth,” he incorporates his signature ...

But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. North Carolina teacher Melissa Alter ...

246 Old Walt Whitman Road ... and encounter the life and works of the most powerful poet in world literature, America’s own Walt Whitman. Whitman was born here on May 31, 1819 and in 1949 ...

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“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 ...