To appreciate the act of offering comfort for the victims of war, there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt ...

Shortly before a controversial Gilded Age presidential election 140 years ago, Walt Whitman, the renowned poet of democracy, published a short piece of verse titled “Election Day, November ...

Whitman identifies two criteria for social progress: “a large variety of character and full ... a famous poem, and I think it sounds like Patti Smith: “People got the power.” Walt would ...

And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to address the ...