Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. In 1855 Walt Whitman declared “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” Join host Elisa New as ...

Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass on Whitman’s landmark book of poetry, "Leaves of Grass.” San Francisco’s Arion Press is one of the country’s last fine book printers creating limited edition, handmade ...

"Leaves of Grass," though his best-known work, was not the only form in which Whitman published his poems—nor were the poems, however famous, the only thing he wrote. Arranged here is a selection of ...

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, ...

Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was banned from libraries across the United States.

The appearance of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" in a new edition has revived a discussion always imminent when the name of this writer is brought forward, and always more or less acrimonious. Some ...

Few great artists can truly capture the spirit of a time or place, but poet Walt Whitman does so masterfully in his writing. His poetry expresses the essence of a bustling and burgeoning 19th-century ...

In “Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman transformed his life into a poetic portrait of America and all its vastness, diversity, and tension. More than 150 years later, writer-director Tim Blake Nelson does ...

I know there are few words less redolent of Democracy than poetry. What is poetry, after all, but language at its highest pitch, words in their most mysterious register, men wearing pretentiously ...