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Jalloh, a 14-year-old Muslim immigrant from Guinea, may seem like a surprising conduit for the writing of Whitman, a long-dead queer socialist poet from Brooklyn, but such incongruity is the active ...

The posthumous publication of "Song of Myself," a previously unpublished novel by the late gay activist and Walt Whitman scholar, Arnie Kantrowitz has been released. Song Of Myself is a gay man's ...

Since Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, the famously banned poetry collection has inspired all kinds of contemporary artistic homages, including Breaking Bad subplots, illuminated ...

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Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America, edited by Brenda Wineapple (Library of America, 196 pp., $19.95) If optimism is the American creed, ...

Song of Myself was included in Walt Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass. Whitman paid for the publication of the first edition himself. A Reading from 'O Captain, My Captain' Listen • 0:00 Walt ...