Todd Nelson identified Walt Whitman’s great Reconstruction-era essay “Democratic Vistas” as a way to understand our perilous time (“Revisit the cautionary words of Walt Whitman,” Nov. 11). Whitman was ...

The State of Alabama and the City of Birmingham both have poet laureates in Ashley Jones and Salaam Green, respectively. Meet ...

Members of Oklahoma's Indigenous community shared their stories at a recent Breaking Bread event hosted by the OK Justice ...

And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to address the ...