With 2019 marking 200 years of celebrating the life of Walt Whitman, we're taking a tour of his life and work at The Morgan Library and Museum.
Walt Whitman would have turned 200 this year. It’s a pretty big deal for writers and poets everywhere. Whitman’s style ...
Having a sh*t sandwich of a week/month/year? Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to the rescue!
An examination of the works mentioned in Ben Lerner's new book THE HATRED OF POETRY
The New York Public Library has just made a deliciously large chunk of its public domain materials – more than 180,000 ...
Here’s a quirk that, though not unique to the South, gets amplified in the Bible Belt: the decision to trust ...
In this fast-paced electronic age, poetry is severely undervalued and under read. Luckily, some poetry fans have taken their passion ...
Almost exactly two years ago, we ran a post on 10 awesome literary mustaches. It was indeed awesome, and yet something ...
Jane Austen, according to several reports, is in the running to appear on Great Britain’s ten-pound note in the near ...
To mark the United States’ 236th birthday, I give you Walt Whitman’s “Preface to Leaves of Grass.” Here, more than ...
For many readers, getting to hear their favorite authors speak is a huge thrill. It’s an amazing experience to get ...
Sometimes, late at night, as I’m trying to get to sleep, I’ll torpedo the whole attempt by asking myself life’s ...
Dear America, Has it really been four years? Has it been that long since you were here, hands wavering over ...
