Walt Whitman wrote one of his most famous poems, Song of Myself, in 1855, but according to former United States poet laureate Robert Hass, it wasn't until much later that the poem acquired the name by ...

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 ...

Daniel Dell Blake doesn't want to fit in. He wants the right to stand out. But in a small fictional town of Elysium, New York, that's a dangerous wish. Blake is the main character in - Song of Myself: ...

The posthumous publication of "Song of Myself," a previously unpublished novel by the late gay activist and Walt Whitman scholar, Arnie Kantrowitz has been released.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

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 ...

A special exhibit is returning to Buffalo this weekend. Embracing Earth: Burchfield & Whitman is co-curated by Sam Magavern and Burchfield Scholar, Nancy Weekly. “Along with beautiful Burchfield art, ...

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 ...

Gay rights pioneer Arnie Kantrowitz shelved dreams of publishing his novel. Three years after his death, his partner fulfils his wish. Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel Daniel Dell Blake ...