Project blending poetry, journalism and art has former residents feeling nostalgic and outsiders planning visits to ...

W hen Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, it drew some savage reviews. The splenetic Rufus W. Griswold (famous for slandering the dead Edgar Allan Poe) could barely contain his fury.

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 ...

Walt Whitman (1819-92) was the father of both American poetry and modern poetry in general. His monumental collection of poems, "Leaves of Grass," established free verse as the international norm for ...

Several places, including Long Island, Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn, can legitimately lay claim to Walt Whitman. Given that Whitman spent his final 19 years in Camden, we should hail this New ...

Why Walt Whitman Called America the ‘Greatest Poem’ The 19th-century writer believed that the power of poetry and democracy came from an ability to make a unified whole out of disparate parts ...

Walt Whitman quit school at age 11 and was immediately put to work. His interests, he told a friend, would always remain with ordinary folks: “the workers, the doers, the humbles.” ...

And when Whitman was writing that poem, he's 36 years - 37 years old. He's not gone yet. He's not going to be gone for quite a while, yet he writes that poem as if he's already in the past, so ...

Long before the current wave of book banning, Walt Whitman’s poetry classic was banned from libraries across the United States. The backlash even cost Whitman his Interior Department job.