Poetry enthusiasts can celebrate the works of Walt Whitman later this month during an evening of food, short films and live performances at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center. MORE EVENTS Arts ...

This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, and Dan Piepenbring wrote on ...

Members of the public are invited to lend their voices to Whitman in Love, an immersive theatrical experience exploring the ...

Filmmaker Jennifer Crandall (left) sits with Billy Wayne Corkerin and his wife Lucy Corkerin on the porch of their home in Fayette, Ala. The couple read verse 43 of the Walt Whitman poem "Song of ...

The great American poet Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago today. His monumental work was "Leaves Of Grass" first published in 1855. But Whitman was also a poet of the Civil War. He lived and worked ...

Poet Walt Whitman poses for a portrait in 1871. In the following selection from the afterword to a new edition of Live Oak, with Moss, a set of Walt Whitman poems rediscovered in the 1950s and now ...

One day in 1855, while pondering his evening commute on a New York ferry, Walt Whitman took out his notebook and jotted down thoughts for a poem, about time, space and his mystical ties to the future.

During the Civil War era, the writer emerged as an emblem of the country’s dissonance. Now, in the midst of another all-consuming national crisis, his work feels uncannily relevant. By Jesse Green SIX ...

Had it not been for classical music, and opera in particular, Walt Whitman‘s poetry would probably never have been written. It sounds a ridiculously bold, even nonsensical claim to make, yet Whitman ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don't have to like poetry to like Walt Whitman. You don't even have to know of Walt Whitman to know of his poetry. Does the ...