“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman said late in life. That line is the opening salvo in Matthew Aucoin’s program notes to “Crossing,” an opera that he ...

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.

“Parenthood” star Mae Whitman has a very special explanation for her son's name. On Aug. 28, 2024, Whitman, 36, announced she had welcomed her first child, a baby boy named Miles, with a photo of her ...

Whitman College, a private liberal arts school in Washington, will cap what families pay toward tuition at 10% of their ...

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, and Dan Piepenbring wrote on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A statue of the famous 19th-century poet Walt Whitman is set to be ...

Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Her reported column, Compass, ...

Martin J. Whitman is founder and co-chief investment officer of Third Avenue Management. Whitman founded the forerunner to Third Avenue Funds in 1986 and M.J. Whitman LLC, a full-service broker-dealer ...

The American poet Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago today on Long Island. To mark the occasion, marathon readings are being held across the nation, and scholars from around the globe are gathering ...

Editor’s Note: Karen Karbiener is a Walt Whitman scholar who teaches at New York University. Her works include an edition of “Leaves of Grass,” a book introducing children to Whitman’s poetry, and ...