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 ...

In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or ... The 1872 edition spread these Civil War poems throughout the book, suggesting that the war formed an ...

I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings when ... and "drank delight of battle" over books, the principal subjects being Shakespeare and Walt's own Leaves of Grass. Over Shakespeare ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... Later that year he returned to Brooklyn and founded a pro-slavery newspaper. His book of poetry, Leaf of Grass, appeared in 1855.

Seemingly answering the call Whitman voiced in :The Eighteenth Presidency!" for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted ... Abraham Lincoln and Walt ...

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 ...

They will share their words and poems to speak back to Walt Whitman in his own city. Walt’s dream of multitudes, of being “old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,” still inspires ...