The PEN Ten with Martín Espada
"As a poet with a background in law, I am obsessed by the philosophy, the poetics, and the practice of justice. I am obsessed by what Whitman calls, 'the… More
Deborah Landau—Reading Walt Whitman
In celebration of Banned Books Week 2013, PEN America featured Deborah Landau reading Whitman's poems "Leaves of Grass" and "Respondez!" More
From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom (Video)
Yale University’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom reflects back on his life-long love… More
From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom (audio)
Yale University’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom reflects back on his life-long love… More
Two Poems by Vikas K. Menon
But Walt Whitman’s sweetly other tongue // always sang in us, / my Brother, my Stranger— // even as children, when / all we owned // were our silences. More
Poetry Roundup: The Road is Before Us!
Welcome to the Walt days of summer. Today we praise our expansive poetic father, Walt Whitman, whose birthday we just celebrated! More