Given the critical mass of scholars, colleges and publishing houses, Boston staked a claim as the intellectual and literary center of the United States. Whitman, while indebted to the Boston ...

If it wasn't for his new friend Corey, Duane Whitman might not be here. They're out on a hunt at the Wilderness Hunting Lodge ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

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Whitman Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (Blackwell Publishing, 2016), 137-49. "The Letters in the Litter: Messy Boundaries and Other Conundrums in Editing Walt Whitman’s Correspondence," ...

Whitman talked frankly on the subject ... as I remember), and "drank delight of battle" over books, the principal subjects being Shakespeare and Walt's own Leaves of Grass. Over Shakespeare ...

For Mass, Whitman, the poet, is fundamentally entwined with memories ... Back at the AIDS Memorial, Dr. Larry Mass remembered ...

Scrolling on your phone while on the throne should be a national sport, but you can be spending your toilet time so much more ...

You should actually have all of Silverstein’s books in your home. Yes, some of the poems are a bit weird, a bit gruesome, a bit cringy, a bit over-the-top. But just as you enjoy Eliot, Cummings, and ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures, as part of its Justice For All programming initiative, presents “An Evening with Percival Everett” on ...