Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - The Walt Whitman Association celebrates the 203 birthday of the American poet, essayist and journalist with a program at his Camden home where he spent the last years of ...

Walt Whitman lived here in the 1850s. Some preservationists want to give landmark status to his former home, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Jackie Molloy for The New York Times ...

Banners of well-known poets like Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes hung from the wood-paneled ceilings, as poets sang, rhymed and read their own original works. While football fans were readying ...

Long before the current wave of book banning, Walt Whitman’s poetry classic was banned from libraries across the United States. The backlash even cost Whitman his Interior Department job.

In the late 1850s, Walt Whitman wrote Calamus: a sequence of 45 poems about camaraderie, friendship, and love among men, which he included in the 1860 edition of his collected poems, Leaves of Grass.