I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings ... I bring to you no proud poem,' " I replied. O'Connor cried out, in his vehement way, "That's so, Walt, -- that's so!" "I think you are right ...

In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just ... "Enfans d'Adam," addressed sensual, procreative love and another, "Calamus," addressed comradeship ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Beginning on the next page, Whitman turns directly to the disaster confronting the Union, addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” ...

Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories ... but he managed to write about same-sex love in ways that were more than one hundred years ahead ...

Walt Whitman's ego ... of Leaves of Grass, Whitman called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing ...

On Saturday, May 3 at 4 p.m., the Clark Art Institute presents “Walt Whitman Comes to the Clark,” a combination film ...