Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though Walt Whitman insisted to friends that the moth was real – and landed on his finger spontaneously – it was a cardboard prop.

Walt Whitman's quote “Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour" encourages ...

Title page and frontispiece spread of the first edition of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [printed for the author by Andrew and Thomas Rome], 1855 (courtesy of the Grolier Club, ...

At first glance, the busy Long Island town of Huntington may not seem like the place for a peaceful, historic walk. It is, however, the birthplace of Walt Whitman, and visitors, besides visiting his ...

This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, Dan Piepenbring wrote on Whitman’s ...

He may not be topping the best-seller list, but the great American poet and humanist Walt Whitman set a sales record Wednesday at Christie's. A first edition of "Leaves of Grass," printed for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don't have to like poetry to like Walt Whitman. You don't even have to know of Walt Whitman to know of his poetry. Does the ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics ...