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• In Last Lecture, Peter Harris Considers the Good Life - Colby News (2013/05/21 12:24)

  Colby NewsIn Last Lecture, Peter Harris Considers the Good LifeColby NewsPoetry, he said, “slows you down. It is mindfulness inchoate. It is enlightened being.” He recited parts of Walt Whitman's “Song of Myself,” his own inspiration for “liberation of the mind and body, so you can live a life for others and do good.” “'You ...
• Shady Grove Baptist anounces Bible school - Hartselle Enquirer (2013/05/21 10:12)

  Shady Grove Baptist anounces Bible schoolHartselle Enquirer... Alphonse Daudet Fr. author, G. D. Fahrenheit-physicist, Florence Nightingale-nurse, Major Gen. A. E. Burnside, Queen Mary of England, Jay Gould-railroad builder, J. I. Guillotin-the guillotin. Patrick Henry-statesman and Walt Whitman-poet. Email ...and more »
• Served from a lethal coffee pot - Rexburg Standard Journal (2013/05/21 07:38)

  Served from a lethal coffee potRexburg Standard JournalOne day during those same years, in my high school American literature class, our young teacher was pacing rapidly back and forth at the front of the classroom, reciting relatively harmless lines of poetry from Walt Whitman's “Leaves of Grass.” All of ...
• George W. Childs' story is one from rags to riches - Pocono Record (2013/05/20 22:11)

  George W. Childs' story is one from rags to richesPocono RecordHe rose from humble, obscure beginnings to become a millionaire, rubbing elbows with the likes of President Grover Cleveland, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman. Two of his closest friends were Anthony J. Drexel ... Among his many ...
• Michael Musto To LGBT Youth: 'Don't Be A Cookie-Cutter Gay' - Huffington Post - Huffington Post (2013/05/20 13:17)

  Michael Musto To LGBT Youth: 'Don't Be A Cookie-Cutter Gay' - Huffington PostHuffington PostWhen Walt Whitman published this poetry collection, in 1855, he was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior, it was burned by fellow poets and it was referred to as a "mass of stupid filth." Subsequent editions of the collection were ...and more »
• Poetic Justice - Law Week Colorado (2013/05/20 11:11)

  Poetic JusticeLaw Week ColoradoAre you a poet or a lawyer? A poet-lawyer? A lawyer-poet? And a jurist to boot? Indeed, he is all of these things at once. And more. Husband, father, grandfather, lover of nature, water law expert and excellent lunch companion. Perhaps Walt Whitman ...
• College of Fine Arts Commencement address from Terry Adkins - Illinois State University Stories (2013/05/20 11:01)

  Illinois State University StoriesCollege of Fine Arts Commencement address from Terry AdkinsIllinois State University StoriesWalt Whitman (1819-1892) beautifully encapsulates the transcendent universals that comprise what he calls this “vast similitude” in his poem On the Beach at Night Alone: On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her ...
• Tribute to Walt Whitman set for Monday at Rutgers-Camden - Philly.com - Philly.com (blog) (2013/05/19 18:05)

  Tribute to Walt Whitman set for Monday at Rutgers-Camden - Philly.comPhilly.com (blog)"140 years ago, on May 20th, 1873, Walt Whitman came to Camden after having fallen ill. On May 20th, 2013, Sean Lynch will bring together Lamont B. Steptoe, the renowned contemporary American poet and Vietnam veteran, and Rocky Wilson, the puppet ...
• Douglas Lowry Reappointed Dean of Eastman School of Music - University of Rochester Newsroom (2013/05/19 10:04)

  University of Rochester NewsroomDouglas Lowry Reappointed Dean of Eastman School of MusicUniversity of Rochester NewsroomAs part of the RPO's Black History Month program, the 14-minute piece used excerpts from one of Frederick Douglass' speeches, a poem by Walt Whitman, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lowry's words. Before his arrival at Eastman, Lowry served for ...
• Poetry & Jazz - WNYC (2013/05/19 01:16)

  Poetry & JazzWNYCDavid Garland presents some classic poetry and jazz recordings, including the voices of Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, Kenneth Patchen, Gil Scott-Heron, and Melvin van Peebles, as well as poetry by Walt Whitman and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, along with ...
• A Cappella to celebrate gift of singing - Shoreline Beacon (2013/05/18 22:09)

  A Cappella to celebrate gift of singingShoreline BeaconThe text, she continued, is by poet, Walt Whitman and is very important, as it speaks of the ability to heal nations. "There will be reduced orchestral during the performance with organ, trumpet, flute and the tympani," Steeves explained. The choir ...
• Walt Whitman's Civil War bag to be displayed at Library of Congress - Richmond Times Dispatch (2013/05/18 21:11)

  Walt Whitman's Civil War bag to be displayed at Library of CongressRichmond Times DispatchWASHINGTON — In 1888, four years before he died, the aging poet Walt Whitman showed a friend an old leather shoulder bag hanging on the wall of his home in Camden, N.J. It had an adjustable strap with a decorative buckle, and it had seen hard use.
• Speaking of lilacs - The Morning Sun (2013/05/18 17:07)

  Speaking of lilacsThe Morning SunI also remembered that somebody famous wrote the poem, from which the song was based, somebody like Walt Whitman. I learned that it was indeed Walt Whitman but I had no idea how long the poem is. RELATED ASSETS. We did not sing all of that.
• Hark, what poem leaps from yonder Metro wall? - Washington Post (2013/05/18 14:26)

  Hark, what poem leaps from yonder Metro wall?Washington PostThe words come from a poem called “The Dresser” in a book Walt Whitman published in 1865 titled “Drum-Taps.” Answer Man confesses he'd never read the poem before but is glad for the opportunity. “The Dresser” — later retitled by Whitman as “The ...and more »
• Downton Abbey Dan Stevens: 'On paper it looked mad to walk away, but it felt ... - Daily Mail (2013/05/18 14:04)

  Daily MailDownton Abbey Dan Stevens: 'On paper it looked mad to walk away, but it felt ...Daily MailIn Hell's Kitchen recently, he bought some volumes of Walt Whitman and Beat poetry. 'I'm in love with literature and, though this may well seem outdated, books. They are my weakness.' Viewed thus, it makes perfect sense that Stevens quit Downton. You ...
• In Harmony ladies span ages - Arbroath Herald (2013/05/18 04:06)

  Arbroath HeraldIn Harmony ladies span agesArbroath Herald'A Song of the Open Road' followed, an attractive piece adapted from the poetry of American Walt Whitman and this turned in a good solid performance from the choir. A moment of reflection featured Darla Eshelman's 'A Song from the Heart' which praised ...
• Weekend Staff Picks: Whitman & Great Googa Mooga - WNYC (blog) (2013/05/18 01:09)

  Weekend Staff Picks: Whitman & Great Googa MoogaWNYC (blog)WQXR classical music host, Naomi Lewin, wants to walk with Walt Whitman in a tour of Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn's first park which owes its existence to the poet's editorials written for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. "Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park and ...and more »
• Actor John Slade revives Walt Whitman in song and spirit - Ventura County Star (2013/05/18 00:20)

  Actor John Slade revives Walt Whitman in song and spiritVentura County StarWhen John Slade recently took on the persona of poet Walt Whitman and read, sang and rapped his poetry in Ojai, the reaction was “an absolute jaw dropping, foot tapping, belly laughing, tear jerking and inspiring experience,” said spectator Dianne ...
• Ky. Voices: Celebrate cultural gifts of gay geniuses - Lexington Herald Leader (2013/05/17 21:55)

  Lexington Herald LeaderKy. Voices: Celebrate cultural gifts of gay geniusesLexington Herald LeaderMany great writers of poetry, fiction and plays were or are gay: the quintessential American poet Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, W.H. Auden, Gore Vidal, E.M. Forster, A.E. Housman, Marcel Proust, Lord Byron, Gustav Flaubert, Thornton Wilder, Noel Coward ...
• A Bedford County poet in the Big Apple - Shelbyville Times-Gazette (2013/05/17 06:14)

  Shelbyville Times-GazetteA Bedford County poet in the Big AppleShelbyville Times-GazetteShe totally outweighed Kathleen Turner, who read Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman. 4. Dick Cavett was most entertaining and delivered poems by Philip Larkin and Robert Frost with unforgettable authority. 5. Tyne Daly, stage, screen and television ...
• Memorable Commencement Speech: 'You Are Not Special' - American Thinker (2013/05/16 21:21)

  Memorable Commencement Speech: 'You Are Not Special'American Thinker"But, Dave," you cry, "Walt Whitman tells me I'm my own version of perfection! Epictetus tells me I have the spark of Zeus!" And I don't disagree. ... The poet Mary Oliver tells us to row, row into the swirl and roil. Locally, someone... I forget who ...
• John Green Delivers Commencement Address at Butler University - mediabistro.com (2013/05/16 14:50)

  John Green Delivers Commencement Address at Butler Universitymediabistro.comThe later portions of his speech also quotes from a letter penned by novelist William Faulkner and borrows a phrase from poet Walt Whitman. (via Entertainment Weekly). In the past, many other authors have delivered commencement addresses. Last year ...and more »
• How Can I Keep From Singing! - San Francisco Classical Voice (2013/05/16 10:20)

  San Francisco Classical VoiceHow Can I Keep From Singing!San Francisco Classical VoiceThis year the choral group opens with the fine American composer Howard Hanson's Song of Democracy, a setting of Walt Whitman poetry. The group will also offer Shawn Kirchner's bluegrass Heavenly Home: Three American Songs. Along with music of ...
• In defense of 'fun' journalism - Washington Post - Washington Post (blog) (2013/05/15 15:50)

  In defense of 'fun' journalism - Washington PostWashington Post (blog)I've always though of Walt Whitman when I think of my approach to journalism. (And, before you mock, no, I am not comparing myself to Whitman. Just remembering his quote.) In his poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman wrote: ”Do I contradict myself? Very well ...
• Another Casa Libre Edge Series Worth Your Time - Tucson Weekly (2013/05/15 15:01)

  Another Casa Libre Edge Series Worth Your TimeTucson WeeklyHer work was chosen by poets Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root for Press 53's Silver Concho Poetry Series. The book was chosen as a runner-up for the Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets. The Range also loves Calatayud's her ...
• King of the Underground: an interview with Ron Whitehead Part 1 - Examiner.com (2013/05/15 07:44)

  Examiner.comKing of the Underground: an interview with Ron Whitehead Part 1Examiner.comE-mail *. do not change. Contact Email. Contact Email2. Contact Url. Subscribe to Blog. Remember my Info. "My life is a sand painting poem. Here gone, here gone gone gone, baby. Beautifully, meticulously, randomly, fractalledly, holistically forever ...
• The Brooklyn Bridge Has Never Looked So Beautiful - Gizmodo Australia (2013/05/14 23:35)

  The Brooklyn Bridge Has Never Looked So BeautifulGizmodo AustraliaAnd in the 130 years since, this iconic span has inspired poets like Jack Kerouac and Walt Whitman, been named a National Historic Landmark, and carried countless of Gothamites across the East River while slowly becoming one of the best known and ...and more »
• ArtsCenter's production of 'Walt' breathes new life into Whitman's legacy - The Daily Tar Heel (2013/05/14 21:37)

  ArtsCenter's production of 'Walt' breathes new life into Whitman's legacyThe Daily Tar HeelThe ArtsCenter is telling Whitman's life story in the southeast premiere of a musical production called “Walt.” Director ... “I knew he was a poet and had done a lot of writing about Lincoln, but I didn't really know much about his life or his poetry ...
• FAMILY ALMANAC My gifted child is slacking on her homework - Bangor Daily News (2013/05/13 10:02)

  FAMILY ALMANAC My gifted child is slacking on her homeworkBangor Daily NewsYour young reader will see the value of repetition if you have her memorize “The Tiger” by William Blake or “Oh Captain, My Captain” by Walt Whitman. Then let her recite them, since these dramatic poems will invite applause and make her want to learn more.
• SEA TO SHINING SEA: MAY 11 - Gone to look for America - Cape Gazette (2013/05/12 06:23)

  Cape GazetteSEA TO SHINING SEA: MAY 11 - Gone to look for AmericaCape GazetteSomehow the conversation, maybe the rhythm of dialogue, “Yo going to the movies with me tonight,” pushed my mind toward poet William Carlos Williams. He developed a rhythm of writing that he ... Walt Whitman. “Something there is that doesn't like a ...
• Walt Whitman's haversack to go on display at Library of Congress - Washington Post (2013/05/11 15:56)

  Walt Whitman's haversack to go on display at Library of CongressWashington PostIn 1888, four years before he died, the aging poet Walt Whitman showed a friend an old leather shoulder bag hanging on the wall of his home in Camden, N.J. It had an adjustable strap with a decorative buckle and had seen hard use. He'd gotten it long ...and more »
• Old Brooklynites elect new president - Brooklyn Daily Eagle (2013/05/11 10:14)

  Old Brooklynites elect new presidentBrooklyn Daily EagleAmong the more prominent members of the society in the past have been poet and editor Walt Whitman, Columbia University President Seth Low, and the man considered by historians to be the true father of baseball, Henry Chadwick. The society which ...
• Iowa View: The attributes of mothers - DesMoinesRegister.com (2013/05/11 04:31)

  Iowa View: The attributes of mothersDesMoinesRegister.comAn exuberant Walt Whitman at age 36, ready to embark on a journey of discovery, began his poem “Starting from Paumanok,” “Well begotten and raised by a perfect mother.” Mothers are incredibly busy, especially mothers working outside the home. Charlotte ...and more »
• R&R | Summer of Festivals Playlist - The Watch (2013/05/09 15:00)

  R&R | Summer of Festivals PlaylistThe WatchHe even delivers the poetry “there is much more stardust when you are near” on “A New Life” to drive that connection home. ... Slow tunes such as “Alone”, and dexterous pick-work on “Walt Whitman” and “Risk,” show the boys keep evolving with their niche.
• Princeton exhibit features Jersey Shore paintings from 1871-1940 - Newsworks.org (2013/05/09 07:19)

  Princeton exhibit features Jersey Shore paintings from 1871-1940Newsworks.orgWalt Whitman, who had struck up a friendship with Point Pleasant artist Carolyn Cook Sanborn and her husband, Nestor, visited the shore and wrote his poem "Patrolling Barnegat." "Whitman said what gives New Jersey its identity is the Shore," noted ...
• ELEVATED | Peter Pan, the Beatles and the Great Southwest - The Watch (2013/05/09 06:47)

  ELEVATED | Peter Pan, the Beatles and the Great SouthwestThe WatchIt's the same force that Walt Whitman describes in his poetry. And that's what life is.” Arches aren't obvious in every painting on display here, though you'll find iconic examples of them. But “It's really about the curves,” Sharon says. The curves ...
• Make time for 'happy hour' - Hindu Business Line (2013/05/09 04:16)

  Hindu Business LineMake time for 'happy hour'Hindu Business LineStart a 'Happy Hour' with the understanding that when you meet, the environment should ring only with good thoughts, meditations, readings from the works of poets like Walt Whitman, sage-philosophers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, masters of spirituality ...
• Something new to end season - Stockton Record (2013/05/09 00:12)

  Something new to end seasonStockton RecordThe latest is "I Heard You Singing," Conte's three-minute adaptation of an early 20th-century poem that provides the theme and evokes the spirit of the chorale's season-concluding Friday and Saturday concerts. ... "It's not quite as gnarly as (Walt ...and more »
• This Month's Poets at the Library Event Brings Elaine Terranova to Princeton - Town Topics (2013/05/08 05:17)

  This Month's Poets at the Library Event Brings Elaine Terranova to PrincetonTown TopicsMs. Terranova's interest in poetry prompted a chapbook, Toward Morning/Swimmers, in 1980. But it was with her first collection The Cult of the Right Hand that she came to prominence. The Cult of the Right Hand won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the ...and more »
• Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) - TheaterMania.com (2013/05/07 18:00)

  TheaterMania.comOld-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)TheaterMania.comNicholas Noreña plays a wide-eyed Walt Whitman-looking gremlin as Bibendum (aka Michelin), a character who seems to have scant relationship to the others. He never speaks, but occasionally appears on stage to beat his drum and glare at the audience. As ...and more »
• Portraits of Living American Poets - Huffington Post (2013/05/07 14:27)

  Huffington PostPortraits of Living American PoetsHuffington PostSo we became friends and I persisted in asking until one time by the river, where Walt Whitman left his mark, I said to Phil that I have given up on asking him, at which point he said Why don't we do it! 2013-05-07-PhilLevine.jpg. Many of Phil's words ...and more »
• Verde Valley Voices Spring Concert 2013 with Yavapai College Community ... - Verde Independent (2013/05/07 14:11)

  Verde Valley Voices Spring Concert 2013 with Yavapai College Community ...Verde IndependentDr. Fisher led his chorale in a trio of songs with spiritual tones, including the musical rendering of "O Captain, My Captain" - from Walt Whitman's poem lamenting the death of Abraham Lincoln. Their third song was the piece made popular by Pete Seeger ...
• Local senior places in national Poetry Out Loud - The Lawton Constitution (2013/05/06 22:01)

  Local senior places in national Poetry Out LoudThe Lawton ConstitutionBurns recited "The True-Blue American" and "Baudelaire," both by Delmore Schwartz, and Walt Whitman's "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest and the Road Unknown." Her third-place finish was worthy of a personal cash prize of $5,000, along with a $500 ...
• Mother of all trivia tests - Macon Telegraph (blog) (2013/05/05 19:50)

  Mother of all trivia testsMacon Telegraph (blog)Mercer graduate David Bottoms (B.A. English, '71), a future poet laureate of Georgia, won the prestigious Walt Whitman Award for the Academy of American Poets in 1979 for which poetry collection? (A) “Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump” (B ...
• Houston area book events: May 6-12 - Houston Chronicle (blog) (2013/05/05 13:54)

  Houston area book events: May 6-12Houston Chronicle (blog)Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration: Writers In Performance series hosts panel of poets, professors and Whitman enthusiasts to read excerpts and discuss Whitman's life and poetry, 3 p.m., Lone Star College-Montgomery, Health Science Center (Building B), ...and more »
• 'Stag's Leap' shows triumph of art over heartbreak - Kansas.com (2013/05/05 06:08)

  'Stag's Leap' shows triumph of art over heartbreakKansas.comWhoever thinks that the confessional movement in American poetry died with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in the 1970s should think again. Sharon Olds has made a ... To call her a female Walt Whitman would exaggerate only a little. The pull of Eros on ...
• All Your Books Are Belong To Us - Huffington Post (blog) (2013/05/04 10:50)

  All Your Books Are Belong To UsHuffington Post (blog)A chorus of laughter erupted during the section of Google and the World Brain which pointed out some of the imperfections in Google's cataloging techniques (Walt Whitman's famous collection of poems, Leaves of Grass. was incorrectly identified as a ...and more »
• Wellesley Choral Society to perform at Hills Church Sunday - Wellesley Townsman (2013/05/03 14:33)

  Wellesley Choral Society to perform at Hills Church SundayWellesley TownsmanVaughan Williams calls Toward the Unknown Region a Song for Chorus and Orchestra. It uses as text the poem “Darest thou now, o soul,” by Walt Whitman (1819-1892). The poem is contained in Whitman's collection of poems Leaves of Grass. Vaughan ...
• Wilmington native Publishes Poetry Collection - Homenewshere wilmington town crier (2013/05/02 18:03)

  Wilmington native Publishes Poetry CollectionHomenewshere wilmington town crierWILMINGTON—John Williams, the co-founder and editor of the Inflectionist Review and the co-director of the Walt Whitman 150 Organization, has been writing since he was eight. Those stories, which he describes as “silly,” began a lifelong journey—one ...
• Robert Bly: By the Book - New York Times (2013/05/02 16:14)

  Robert Bly: By the BookNew York TimesThat made me realize how boring it is to have poems without opinions. And early on there was William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman, Hart Crane and old T. S. Eliot too. If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be? “News of ...
• Remembering the 'poet of democracy' - Durham Herald Sun (2013/05/02 12:42)

  Remembering the 'poet of democracy'Durham Herald SunA group made up of writers, Carrboro and Chapel Hill town officials, and anyone who still wants to sign up will celebrate the poetic vision of Walt Whitman with a community reading of “Song of Myself” Saturday. Jeri Lynn Schulke, director of ArtsCenter ...
• Happy 30th, chorus - Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra (2013/05/02 07:00)

  Glasgow South and Eastwood ExtraHappy 30th, chorusGlasgow South and Eastwood ExtraDistinctly different, Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony uses Walt Whitman's poetry as its text, reinforcing the qualities of the composition style with melody and rhythm expertly used to reflect the natural spirit of the ocean in its grandeur and its ...
• 'Speed Enforced' a vibrant book of poems - Martinsburg Journal (2013/05/01 21:35)

  Martinsburg Journal'Speed Enforced' a vibrant book of poemsMartinsburg JournalPeabody does not stop with reflections on the state of poetry. He then moves forward to create considerable space for his anti-war poetry. In the poem, "Civil War Pieta," he addresses Walt Whitman and the number of amputated limbs Whitman has seen ...
• Richard Dupont's third solo exhibition with Tracy Williams, Ltd. opens in New York - Art Daily (2013/05/01 19:55)

  Richard Dupont's third solo exhibition with Tracy Williams, Ltd. opens in New YorkArt DailyDupont inverts and embosses the backside of these found rubber maps with cryptic titles appropriated from Walt Whitman poems, which he translates into binary code. In doing so, he creates objects that are at once Orwellian and transcendental. Issues of ...
• Remarks by Morgan director William M. Griswold - Absolutearts.com (2013/05/01 16:14)

  Remarks by Morgan director William M. GriswoldAbsolutearts.comThese items—which include a more than two-thousand-year-old Egyptian Book of the Dead, a medieval zodiac, and poet Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass—demonstrate the breadth of Barney's interests and underscore the importance of literature and ...
• new Mead senior wins national Poetry Out Loud contest - The Spokesman Review (2013/05/01 14:25)

  new Mead senior wins national Poetry Out Loud contestThe Spokesman ReviewIn addition to Rexroth's poem, he performed the “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee and “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown” by Walt Whitman. “I felt like I had more control over what I was doing on stage, maybe because I had been there ...and more »
• Dressing up and down in Philadelphia - Weekly Press - Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press (2013/05/01 11:31)

  Dressing up and down in Philadelphia - Weekly PressPhiladelphia Center City Weekly PressMy great aunt, who was born in 1895, had no time for an open collar, while an open collar to me was a beautiful thing (like reading the poetry of Walt Whitman), especially in the summer. The prospect of having lunch with me and my open collar in the ...
• Jim Steinmeyer on 'Who Was Dracula? Bram Stoker's Trail Of Blood' - Examiner.com (2013/05/01 10:09)

  Jim Steinmeyer on 'Who Was Dracula? Bram Stoker's Trail Of Blood'Examiner.comHow did the poetry of Walt Whitman influence Bram Stoker's Dracula and his appearance? Other researchers have noticed the connections between Whitman's appearance and Dracula's appearance, and the mysterious, poetic way that Dracula speaks in the ...and more »
• Making poetry sing - Harvard Gazette (2013/05/01 07:42)

  Harvard GazetteMaking poetry singHarvard GazetteWhile Jaji said she could have chosen to set a work by Walt Whitman to music, like she has done in the past, using the words of the African-American Clifton allowed her to claim an artistic lineage that has become vital to her. “That for me is a pan ...
• Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" - The Independent Weekly (2013/05/01 06:55)

  Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"The Independent WeeklyIf the extent of your knowledge about the great American vagabond poet Walt Whitman is that he wrote that poem about Abraham Lincoln dying (you know, the one from ninth-grade English class), ArtsCenter Stage's upcoming production of Walt will surely ...
• A Cancer Patient's Quest For Purpose And The Pacific Ocean - WLRN (2013/05/01 05:54)

  A Cancer Patient's Quest For Purpose And The Pacific OceanWLRNHis love for words and language was contagious, and he used his youth to his advantage, mixing Walt Whitman and Tupac Shakur into his poetry lessons. He has already defeated the odds once. He was given two months to live after being diagnosed with ...
• National Poetry Month: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, the First American Indian Poet - Indian Country Today Media Network (2013/04/30 17:01)

  National Poetry Month: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, the First American Indian PoetIndian Country Today Media NetworkHere one senses a harbinger of the “song of myself” sentiment that would sweep American poetry beginning with Walt Whitman and continues to this day. Thus is Bamewawagezhikaquay also a mother to all contemporary American poets, Native and ...
• Local Writer Draws Comparisons To Whitman and Pope Pius XII - 27east.com (2013/04/30 16:56)

  Local Writer Draws Comparisons To Whitman and Pope Pius XII27east.comAuthor Richard Gambino has felt them all his life, as did 19th-century poet Walt Whitman. The late, great American author coined the trio as "magnetic sympathy," Mr. Gambino said, a force that floods Whitman's writings—from his controversial poetry to ...
• Iran Continues Crackdown on Sufis - Huffington Post (2013/04/30 15:18)

  Iran Continues Crackdown on SufisHuffington PostIt is often asserted that the Sufi author Jalalad'din Rumi (1207-73 CE) is the most widely-read poet in the U.S. Rumi is among the supreme literary figures for Iranians. He is joined in the Iranian ... Walt Whitman was similarly affected. He began his ...and more »
• Paul Taylor, Live and on TV - San Francisco Classical Voice (2013/04/30 10:04)

  Paul Taylor, Live and on TVSan Francisco Classical Voice6; and Beloved Renegade, set to the Poulenc Gloria, and inspired by the life and work of Walt Whitman. Scenes in the work from Whitman's life include watching youngsters at play, and tending to the afflicted just as the poet nursed wounded soldiers ...
• At Large with Tom Williams > > NJ Hall of Fame voting closes Friday - Shore News Today (2013/04/30 09:25)

  At Large with Tom Williams > > NJ Hall of Fame voting closes FridayShore News TodayThey include rock singer Jon Bon Jovi; basketball star Shaquille O'Neal; athlete, singer and activist Paul Robeson; Walt Whitman, possibly the USA's most influential poet; award-winning scientist Carl Sagan; comedian Bud Abbott, half of the Abbott and ...
• Poet laureates Poniewaz, Chapson to read Sunday - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog) (2013/04/30 08:13)

  Poet laureates Poniewaz, Chapson to read SundayMilwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)He grew up on the south side in the neighborhood of St. Josaphat Basilica, 2333 S. 6th St. Like many of his poems, his 1986 collection “Dolphin Leaping in the Milky Way” married his two passions in verse that's clearly in the tradition of Walt Whitman ...
• Happy Birthday Walt! Lone Star College-Montgomery Celebrates Poet¹s Birthday ... - The Paper Magazine (2013/04/30 06:34)

  Happy Birthday Walt! Lone Star College-Montgomery Celebrates Poet¹s Birthday ...The Paper MagazineCONROE, TX (April 29, 2013) - Continuing the long-running annual tradition of sonnet and verse, Lone Star College-Montgomery's Writers In Performance series hosts a birthday celebration for acclaimed poet Walt Whitman, on Thursday, May 9, at 3 p.m., ...and more »
• Mineola Resident Named New Nassau Poet Laureate - Patch.com (2013/04/30 06:08)

  Mineola Resident Named New Nassau Poet LaureatePatch.comIn 2012 he was named by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Long Island Poet of the Year, elected member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and given the CCHA Regional Distinquished Humanities Educator Award. He has read his poetry ...
• Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris - PBS (2013/04/30 03:11)

  Paul Taylor Dance Company in ParisPBSThe dance was inspired by the life and work of 19th Century American writer Walt Whitman, who revered the body and soul as one and who famously loved all with equal ardor. It depicts the experiences of an artist described in a line from Whitman's ...
• Anne Frank's Diary Too 'Pornographic' For 7th-Grade Students, Claims Michigan ... - Huffington Post (2013/04/29 14:39)

  Anne Frank's Diary Too 'Pornographic' For 7th-Grade Students, Claims Michigan ...Huffington PostWhen Walt Whitman published this poetry collection, in 1855, he was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior, it was burned by fellow poets and it was referred to as a "mass of stupid filth." Subsequent editions of the collection were ...and more »
• National Poetry Month Emerging Poet Spotlight: Interview with Amanda J ... - Huffington Post (2013/04/29 14:16)

  National Poetry Month Emerging Poet Spotlight: Interview with Amanda J ...Huffington PostNYR Armchair Detective iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app More / PHOTOS: 11 Horrific Book Burnings In History / WATCH: This Woman's Book Club Better Shape Up / 9 Polarizing Opinions About Daisy Buchanan / The Best ...
• Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker - The Guardian (blog) (2013/04/29 11:29)

  The Guardian (blog)Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John RodkerThe Guardian (blog)the prurulent pestilent wind, / and the pullulating sea. / The eternal infinite, cosmical, blue, / deep, unfathomed, boundless, free, / racing, wild, mysterious sea – / its argus-eyed, winged and lanthorned dwellers. / And you; Walt. / God damn the ...
• Farmer, mechanic or artist? Why ranking jobs is ludicrous - Chicago Tribune (2013/04/28 19:23)

  Farmer, mechanic or artist? Why ranking jobs is ludicrousChicago TribuneIn "Leaves of Grass," Walt Whitman, the poet, former newspaperman and volunteer nurse during the Civil War, sings of his fellowship with workers of "every hue and trade and rank" — the "farmer, mechanic or artist … lawyer, physician or priest." Each ...and more »
• Faith column: Roger Ebert's final critique - Oak Ridge Today - Oak Ridge Today (2013/04/28 09:32)

  Faith column: Roger Ebert's final critique - Oak Ridge TodayOak Ridge TodayThe belief in nothingness after death is what Nobel Prize poet Czeslaw Milosz called “the true opium of the people.” Ebert himself ... I believe I probably would have never written a response to Ebert's letter had he not quoted Walt Whitman. I am in ...
• 'Remembering the Fallen' choral concert next Sunday - WatertownDailyTimes.com (2013/04/28 02:04)

  'Remembering the Fallen' choral concert next SundayWatertownDailyTimes.comMost of the lyrics in “Dona Nobis Pacem,” written in 1936, are by American poet Walt Whitman, who volunteered in Army hospitals during the Civil War. Whitman's “Beat! Beat! Drums!” begins: Beat! Beat! Drums! — Blow! Bugles! Blow! Through the windows ...
• SUNY Oswego Festival Chorus to Perform Atypical Musical Selection - Oswego Daily News (2013/04/27 13:54)

  SUNY Oswego Festival Chorus to Perform Atypical Musical SelectionOswego Daily NewsDona Nobis Pacem features samples from Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry, as well as biblical verses and texts by John Bright. “The gravitas (seriousness) of all the texts he chose will shine through nicely,” Price said. The College Choir and State ...
• The National debut new song 'Sea of Love' on 'Jimmy Fallon' - Death and Taxes (2013/04/26 11:30)

  The National debut new song 'Sea of Love' on 'Jimmy Fallon'Death and TaxesThey're also curating a music and film festival this weekend in Brooklyn called Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, which they named after a Walt Whitman poem about the existential woe of mortality because, again, they are not the cheeriest of dudes. But they do ...and more »
• Poetry replaces advertisements - UConn Daily Campus (2013/04/25 20:46)

  Poetry replaces advertisementsUConn Daily CampusPoetic Journeys was inspired and modeled after the Metropolitan Transport Authority's Poetry in Motion project, which began in 1992 with lines from Walt Whitman's “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” being displayed on buses and trains throughout the New York ...
• Author of 'Falling in Love with Joseph Smith' almost became Mormon - Salt Lake Tribune (2013/04/25 20:28)

  Author of 'Falling in Love with Joseph Smith' almost became MormonSalt Lake TribuneHistory, and faith, acknowledged » Barnes hints widely that the contradictions of Smith's legacy are no stumbling block, comparing him to America's great poet of spiritual energy and contradiction, Walt Whitman. In perhaps the book's most freewheeling ...and more »
• Spare Times for April 26-May 2 - New York Times (2013/04/25 15:32)

  Spare Times for April 26-May 2New York TimesNational Poetry Month is cause for celebration for two free events at the Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street, near Houston Street, SoHo. A Walt Whitman tribute on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. will feature a reading of “Song of Myself” from the ...and more »
• Don Lemon, Zach Wahls Debate Anti-Gay Scoutmaster (VIDEO) - Huffington Post - Huffington Post (2013/04/25 09:47)

  Don Lemon, Zach Wahls Debate Anti-Gay Scoutmaster (VIDEO) - Huffington PostHuffington Post'Leaves Of Grass,' By Walt Whitman (1819-1892). The revered and influential poet <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/walt-whitman-9530126?page=1">Walt Whitman</a> was best known for his collection of poems “Leaves of Grass." Whitman was a ...and more »
• Butterflies in America - The Economist (2013/04/25 09:35)

  The EconomistButterflies in AmericaThe Economist“BUTTERFLIES and butterflies”, wrote Walt Whitman, “continue to flit to and fro, all sorts, white, yellow, brown, purple”. Whitman may have had an eye for colour, but as a mere journalist and poet with perhaps a touch of lepidopterophilia, he does not ...
• Students bring poetry to Newburyport Literary Festival - Boston.com (2013/04/25 05:34)

  Students bring poetry to Newburyport Literary FestivalBoston.comSo when Tim McCarron, now a principal in Lawrence, submitted a humble, self-doubting Walt Whitman poem to Newburyport's Favorite Poem Project, his onetime students were surprised to learn that the stern disciplinarian has another, altogether different ...
• Find time to explore poetry this month - Iowa City Press Citizen (2013/04/25 01:34)

  Find time to explore poetry this monthIowa City Press CitizenThe poems are arranged by months of the year and include seasonal and holiday poems by Myra Cohn Livingston, Bobbi Katz, Marchette Chute, Walt Whitman, Karla Kuskin, Langston Hughes, Walter de la Mare, Mary Ann Hoberman, e.e. cummings, Aileen ...
• Poetry Center hosts national Latino poet tour - Arizona Daily Wildcat (2013/04/24 21:58)

  Poetry Center hosts national Latino poet tourArizona Daily WildcatThe UA Poetry Center is the perfect place to begin your journey of self-discovery and unleash your inner Walt Whitman. Tonight at 7 p.m., the Poetry Center will host a Latino contemporary poetry bash, called Latino/a Poetry Now. The event will feature ...and more »
• Kathleen Turner to Appear with New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall, Today - Broadway World (2013/04/24 21:36)

  Kathleen Turner to Appear with New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall, TodayBroadway WorldAward-winning stage and screen star Kathleen Turner will introduce Ralph Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony at Carnegie Hall tonight, April 25 with a reading of the moving and evocative text written by the American poet Walt Whitman. "We are thrilled to ...
• Dark Songs Pierced With Rays of Cheer - New York Times (2013/04/24 14:52)

  Dark Songs Pierced With Rays of CheerNew York TimesSimilar qualities pertained in Roger Quilter's “In the Highlands,” a Robert Louis Stevenson poem arranged by Ms. Gunn to include sweet entanglements by Ms. Ganatra and Mr. Rostad. Mr. Gunn grew more emphatic in Quilter's “Over the Land Is April ...
• Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, April 25-May 1 - Washington Post (2013/04/24 07:58)

  Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, April 25-May 1Washington Post“Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets” Portraits of poets such as Walt Whitman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg are on view through Sunday. National Portrait Gallery ...
• American Music Festival (Oregon Ballet Theatre) - Willamette Week (2013/04/24 07:17)

  Willamette WeekAmerican Music Festival (Oregon Ballet Theatre)Willamette WeekNamed after a Walt Whitman poem, McIntyre's piece explores the excitement of the American pioneer. The dancers wear colonial-style denim jackets, which they twist and pull to create new shapes and characters. Noteworthy is soloist Javier Ubell, who ...
• From Whitman to Lethem: A journey through Brooklyn's literary past - New York Daily News (blog) (2013/04/24 02:47)

  From Whitman to Lethem: A journey through Brooklyn's literary pastNew York Daily News (blog)Our first stop was the former site of the Rome Brothers printing press on Henry St., where Walt Whitman's “Leaves of Grass” was originally printed in 1855. Something of a modern day Jane Jacobs, one of our guides, Marissa Levien prefaced her reading of ...
• Digital Public Library of America - Inside Higher Ed (2013/04/24 00:06)

  Inside Higher EdDigital Public Library of AmericaInside Higher EdIt seemed appropriate to make one of my earliest searches at the Digital Public Library for the quintessential American poet Walt Whitman. There were 52 hits, with 9 of the top 10 being manuscripts of his letters in the Department of Justice collection ...and more »
• Nathan Gunn recital bodes well for forthcoming Higdon opera - Philly.com - Philly.com (2013/04/23 16:09)

  Philly.comNathan Gunn recital bodes well for forthcoming Higdon opera - Philly.comPhilly.comWalt Whitman's Civil War elegy for Lincoln, "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd," took up three pages of the program - a huge amount of poetic real estate for a composer to sustain. It's a compositional tour de force but doesn't sound like one ...and more »
• Courtney Stewart of Springfield headed for national finals of Poetry Out Loud ... - MassLive.com (2013/04/23 14:31)

  Courtney Stewart of Springfield headed for national finals of Poetry Out Loud ...MassLive.comOver the last few weeks, Angel – a hefty Siberian husky-German shepherd mix – has heard the free verse of Walt Whitman, the meditations of Delmore Schwartz, the feminist fire of Adrienne Rich. Why? Because the dog-walks help Stewart as he prepares for ...and more »
• Only two days til Crossing Brooklyn Ferry - Death and Taxes (2013/04/23 13:36)

  Only two days til Crossing Brooklyn FerryDeath and TaxesNamed for Walt Whitman's seminal poem of the same moniker, CBF was curated by Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner of The National fame, and shifts the focus onto the more artistic side of popular and emerging music. The weekend bash spans several ...
• Commentary -- Poetry is a wide, wonderful world - Meriden Record-Journal (2013/04/22 21:07)

  Commentary -- Poetry is a wide, wonderful worldMeriden Record-JournalPoems are magic. In just a few words, they can take you on a journey to a faraway land, or into another person's head. A poem can put even the most difficult feelings into words or show you a well-known object or idea in a completely different way. And ...and more »
• UNI Singers and Symphonic Band bring American spirit to Gallagher-Bluedorn - Northern Iowan (2013/04/22 15:39)

  UNI Singers and Symphonic Band bring American spirit to Gallagher-BluedornNorthern IowanThe UNI Singers and Symphonic Band joined together for one last number: Hanson's “Song of Democracy,” which is based on two poems by American poet Walt Whitman. The song uses the analogy of a ship to represent democracy, and in the finale, the UNI ...
• CLARKE: Strong poetry volumes launched by South Asian-Canadian writers - Ceylon Daily News (2013/04/22 12:52)

  Ceylon Daily NewsCLARKE: Strong poetry volumes launched by South Asian-Canadian writersCeylon Daily NewsPiepzna-Samarasinha is part-Sri Lankan, part-Irish, lesbian and lyrically political — or politically lyrical — which is a way of saying that, like U.S. poet Walt Whitman, she sings the body — her own — electric, shocking, enlightening. Love Cake ...
• Oak Orchard Review holds open mic night - The Journal-Register (2013/04/22 00:07)

  Oak Orchard Review holds open mic nightThe Journal-RegisterSaturday night's lightly-attended poetry reading was a chance for those writers' works to be heard aloud. She said stories and poems were meant for just that. “Walt Whitman used to go to fairs to recite his work, and he had tens of thousands of people ...
• Goings On About Town Night Life - New Yorker (2013/04/21 21:02)

  New YorkerGoings On About Town Night LifeNew YorkerNamed for the Walt Whitman poem, this three-day music-and-film festival is curated by the twin brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner, of the rock band the National. The Dessners are bringing in some heavy-hitters, including the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ...

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