I'm a longtime admirer of Maria Popova. Her essays have moved and startled me more than once, and I’ve underlined her ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

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

Maroon photographer Graham Hansen takes a walk around Hyde Park, cataloging the sculptures that call the neighborhood home.

What Whitman jotted during wartime in his pocket notebooks, he mined to write articles, essays, poems and books, including “The Wound-Dresser,” “Drum-Taps,” “O Captain!

Todd Nelson identified Walt Whitman’s great Reconstruction-era essay “Democratic Vistas” as a way to understand our perilous time (“Revisit the cautionary words of Walt Whitman,” Nov. 11 ...

And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “ Democratic Vistas.” The author of “ Leaves of Grass ” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to ...

Walt Whitman (AP) Facebook X The gay porn studio CockyBoys has just finished releasing a feature-length film that takes its title, “ A Thing of Beauty,” from a John Keats poem.

At 21, Walt Whitman taught kids in Southold, but it’s said he was charged with sodomy, tarred and feathered and driven out of town. But is it true?

Although the book was a failure, Edward Weston considered his 1941 photographs for Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" as some of his best work.