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Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan Named Long Island Poet Of The Year

Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press   By Lisa Daffy Apr 4, 2017 1:04 AM “You know, you write like a guy.” Those might be fighting words for another woman, but Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan took them as a high compliment, coming as they did from a fellow poet, in admiration of her down-to-earth […]

Grad Student Discovers A Lost Novel Written By Walt Whitman

February 21, 2017 Heard on All Things Considered Glen Weldon A literary treasure buried for more than a century has been unearthed by Zachary Turpin, a grad student at the University of Houston. It’s a work of short fiction: a 36,000-word novella published anonymously, in six parts, in a New York newspaper in 1852. The […]

University of Houston student uncovers an unknown work by Walt Whitman

Published by Chron By Alyson Ward Updated 2:58 pm, Friday, April 29, 2016 Photo: Walt Whitman Quarterly Review At The University Of Iowa Walt Whitman’s “Manly Health and Training” series was published in the New York Atlas in 13 installments in 1858. The first installment fills much of the left two columns of this front page […]

In Newly-Discovered Manifesto, Walt Whitman Says You Should Eat Leaves Of Grass

Forbes Apr 29, 2016 Shelby Carpenter , Forbes Staff Walt Whitman was a man wise beyond his time in the ways of diet and exercise. Turns out, the American poet was a proponent of what is known today as the Paleo Diet. American scholars were stunned by the recent publication of “Manly Health and Training,” a […]

Volvo commercial features Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road

Volvo’s breathtaking S90 commercial features Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road. The Walt Whitman Birthplace is open Wednesday – Sunday now through June. Come see where Whitman’s journey started! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBt_niVG4sM&feature=youtu.be&list=PL8gqWtkQSV3QUgdJk8ZQGVFfsS9Fv5a9M

Rare Walt Whitman letter, written for a dying soldier, found in National Archives

The Washington Post story also found here. Rare Walt Whitman letter, written for a dying soldier, found in National Archives The Washington Post By Michael E. Ruane March 9 Pvt. Robert N. Jabo, of the 8th New Hampshire infantry, was dying of tuberculosis in Washington’s Harewood Hospital and needed to write to his family. The […]

At Midnight by Sara Teasdale

Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won. Even love that I built my spirit’s house for, Comes like a brooding and a baffled guest, And music and men’s praise and even laughter […]

Past and Future by Elizabeth Browning

My future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven’s. Be fully done, Supernal Will! I would not fain be one Who, satisfying thirst and breaking fast Upon the fulness of the heart, at last Saith no grace after meat. My wine hath run Indeed out of my cup, and there is […]