Yet the tremendous original power of this new bard, and the freshness, as of nature itself, which breathed though the best of his songs or sayings ... announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town ...

To appreciate the act of offering comfort for the victims of war, there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt Whitman, who spent more than three years volunteering his time during the U ...

International Falls native Matt Rasmussen has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Walt Whitman Award, the Academy of American Poets announced this week. “I didn’t expect to win this ...

One of my all-time favourite quotes was penned by Walt Whitman: “I am large, I contain multitudes.” It felt like a life raft in the heady days of early adulthood as we began carving out our ...

Walt Whitman From “Proud Music of the Storm” to “Italian Music in Dakota,” the influence of opera on Whitman’s work is more than apparent even without the corroborating evidence of quotes like the one ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

Authority workers on Jan. 28 installed a 40-foot-long banner with the team's playoff slogan, "Let's Hunt," on the Walt Whitman Bridge between Gloucester City and Philadelphia. In addition ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved to discover that George had hardly ...

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism, and his self-promotion — writing anonymous reviews of his own book — suggests total self-assurance. There was, however, one man whose praise ...