Much is known about the life of Brooklyn literary king Walt Whitman, but can you locate the residence where he penned his opus? In Wallabout, Whitman wrote the first version of his greatest and best ...

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.

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, “Poet of the Body,” an exhibit featuring the first edition of “Leaves of Grass,” opened at the Providence Athenaeum Oct. 15. On Saturday, the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

"Leave of Grass" was Walt Whitman’s life project. First published in 1855, the book of poems was controversial at best and offensive at worst. The collection has continued to inspire thought, ...

Journalist, critic and feminist Margaret Fuller wrote an essay in 1846 titled “American Literature; Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future.” Its first line read, “Some thinkers ...

When Walt Whitman began conceiving his great volume of poetry, “Leaves of Grass,” in the 1850s, American democracy was in serious danger over the issue of slavery. As we celebrate National Poetry ...

For Leaves of Grass, pianist/composer Fred Hersch has set the poetry of Walt Whitman to music. Without a doubt that this is a very great record. Hersch's compositions, which showcase the singing of ...

As scholarship has made its importance to American letters more manifest, editions of the 1855 version of Whitman's masterpiece have multiplied. This one, prepared in honor of the poem's 150th ...

2011.12.52.9a: A copy of Selections from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman with an attached bookmark (2011.12.52.9b). It is a faux, brown leatherbound hardcover book with a sewn binding. The book has ...