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 ...

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

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

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture ... part of its cultural vision remains out of reach. Today Walt Whitman's challenge "To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too" reads ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Five years after his first poem was published ... soul has grown deep like the rivers.” The style honors that of his poetic ...

One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ...

Anthony Szczesiul's research interests include American poetry, Nineteenth and Twentieth ... such as "American Transcendental Quarterly, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Style, ...