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

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 ...

the quadriennial choosing,) The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California, Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman is the ...

“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged, Missing me one place, search another., I stop somewhere here, waiting for you,” Mass read. Those are the final lines from Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of ...

Poets.org: If you could direct our readers and listeners to any poem in our collection at Poets.org that you haven’t curated, what would it be and why? Poets.org: Your comparison of Jay Wright to Walt ...

“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 ...

One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los ...

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 ...

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 ...

The longstanding gripe about Dylan’s tendency to deconstruct and rework his music until it’s virtually unrecognisable live is ...