A special exhibit is returning to Buffalo this weekend. Embracing Earth: Burchfield & Whitman is co-curated by Sam Magavern and Burchfield Scholar, Nancy Weekly. “Along with beautiful Burchfield art, ...

Title page and frontispiece spread of the first edition of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [printed for the author by Andrew and Thomas Rome], 1855 (courtesy of the Grolier Club, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Walt Whitman was born, in 1819, democracy had existed in America for less than 50 years—it was still a new experiment. During ...

Back in September, we posted on a Curtis Lovell Meets Walt Whitman: Listening Party, as part of the Calamus Project. Now that the musical side of the project has wrapped up, it’s time for the poetic ...

In 1860, writing the third of six editions of his book “Leaves of Grass,” behemoth of American poetry Walt Whitman proclaimed what would follow him. “I announce greater offspring, orators, days, and ...

Walt Whitman spent half his life writing and revising “Leaves of Grass,” his epic poem of a young man’s journey of self-discovery in a young country, America as it grows into a democracy. Whitman was ...

Pay a visit to Laurel Springs, in southern Camden County and you can dip your toes in a natural spring and wander near Timber Creek, where Walt Whitman, always happiest among the butterflies and ...

In life, Walt Whitman became Camden’s most famous adopted son, with literary greats – the likes of Charles Dickens, William M. Thackeray, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde – making ...

Those are the first lines of Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass, now being tweeted in its entirety under the handle @TweetsOfGrass for the fifth time. Each iteration—each reading, if you will—occurs tweet ...

‘This is no book” announced Walt Whitman, in the poem that ended the 1860 edition of his “Leaves of Grass”: “Who touches this touches a man.” For some readers, that was rather too close for comfort. A ...