English honor students from Saint Mary's High School took an educational field trip today to see the West Hills home where celebrated poet Walt Whitman was born in 1819. The young writers couldn't ...

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - The Walt Whitman Association celebrates the 203 birthday of the American poet, essayist and journalist with a program at his Camden home where he spent the last years of ...

Walt Whitman is also referred to as the father of free verse poetry. One of the most popular American gay male poets, Whitman’s lifestyle inspired founding members of the Beat Movement like ...

Whitman (1819-1892) is best known for “Leaves of Grass,” his poetry collection celebrating the democratic spirit of the common folk. It’s been embraced by readers from all walks of life ...

Perhaps the greatest American poet ever to have lived, Walt Whitman was not always regarded as such. Thanks, in part, to the emergence of modernist forms in poetry toward the end of the 19th ...

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, “Poet of the Body,” an exhibit featuring the first edition of “Leaves of Grass,” opened at the Providence Athenaeum Oct. 15. On Saturday, the ...

His work has always been like a secret beauty, too — often circulating in poetry’s subterranean networks, ... From ‘Letters to Walt Whitman' ...