These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Influenced by Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, Dillard writes compressed ... the Time Being,” and “The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New,” and the novels “The Living” and ...

I introduced my unit with an essay called A Poetry and Professional ... sitting crisscross applesauce on the desk and reading Walt Whitman aloud to us. And she read, after class, we were hanging ...

He gulped down the works of America’s literary grandfathers like a desert wanderer at an oasis — Walt Whitman ... stories, and essays of his own. One time, lost somewhere in the dry depths ...

But it is still awaiting its Walt Whitman, the poet who can express in ... shout “darkness” but spread new light. But what these essays do prove is that the Hindi Language now has one of ...

At the time, her main job was writing and editing book reviews and essays for the magazine ... each reciting a verse from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” The poem, which Whitman wrote ...

Trillin is promoting his new book of Texas essays called “Trillin on Texas ... each reciting a verse from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” The poem, which Whitman wrote in 1892, stretches 52 verses ...

Pittsburg State University will host author Micah Bateman for the Victor J. Emmett Jr. Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on April ...