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Live Oak, with Moss: Walt Whitman’s Secret Love Poems

New York Public Library 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman composed a sequence of twelve poems and compiled them in a small handmade book he entitled Live Oak, With Moss—but never exactly published them. The verses describe an unhappy love affair with an unnamed man and are considered among the most adventurous and homoerotic work he ever wrote. Whitman [...]

Walt Whitman’s Poetic Legacy

Poetry Center, Stony Brook University 100 Nicolls Road (Humanities Building, Room 2001), Stony Brook, NY, United States

To kick off National Poetry Month in 2019, join us at Stony Brook University for a poetry reading and discussion examining Walt Whitman’s influence on the poetry and culture of the Americas. Stony Brook University professors and award-winning poets Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Cornelius Eady will address Whitman’s impact in the U.S. and Caribbean, and [...]

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