From O Captain! My Captain! to Song of Myself, Walt Whitman produced some of literature's most memorable poems. But for every work published in his lifetime, the writer left behind many manuscripts ...

The rainbow flag billowing in the wind at the intersection of Market and Castro streets can be spotted from Daniel Redman's home in the Castro District. Facing toward the window, Redman closes his ...

Poetry enthusiasts can celebrate the works of Walt Whitman later this month during an evening of food, short films and live performances at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center. MORE EVENTS Arts ...

They’re playing a song of one self! An orchestral collective will try to bring Brooklynites together with an intimate, 19th-century–style show of poetry and music. The Knights, playing at Fort ...

Walt Whitman (1819-92) was the father of both American poetry and modern poetry in general. His monumental collection of poems, "Leaves of Grass," established free verse as the international norm for ...

Often, the best works of art about an historic event come from long before. Here are four poems from the past, in response to the 2016 presidential election. First, Walt Whitman’s “Election Day, 1884” ...

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 ...

The great American poet Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago today. His monumental work was "Leaves Of Grass" first published in 1855. But Whitman was also a poet of the Civil War. He lived and worked ...

In the late 1850s, Walt Whitman wrote a series of poems celebrating what he called “manly love,” the love men had for other men. Whitman included the poems in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass under ...