#leaves of grass

Moving Books Is Hard To Do

My reading life sits condensed in twenty boxes, waiting to be loaded onto a truck and carted 1,000 miles north. ...

Bibliomancy: Finding Direction in Random Lines of Books

A Rioter discusses the act of reading random lines of books for inspiration.

“The United States Themselves Are Essentially the Greatest Poem”: Whitman’s Dream of America

To mark the United States’ 236th birthday, I give you Walt Whitman’s “Preface to Leaves of Grass.” Here, more than ...