Each year, a gallery within the museum is devoted to the exploration of the life of one individual. Gallery historian and poet David Ward selected Walt Whitman as the subject of this first exhibition ...

You don't have to like poetry to like Walt Whitman. You don't even have to know of Walt Whitman to know of his poetry. Does the phrase, “O captain, my captain!” mean anything to you? If so, then you ...

Much is known about the life of Brooklyn literary king Walt Whitman, but can you locate the residence where he penned his opus? In Wallabout, Whitman wrote the first version of his greatest and best ...

Walt Whitman spent half his life writing and revising “Leaves of Grass,” his epic poem of a young man’s journey of self-discovery in a young country, America as it grows into a democracy. Whitman was ...

Kick off the 200th anniversary of the birth of Brooklyn’s poet with an evening of history and poetry as The Bowery Boys record a special Walt Whitman-themed podcast. Born on May 31, 1819 on Long ...

Louisiana’s history is full of stories about creative geniuses who come here and find their lives changed forever by what they see. Artist John James Audubon arrived in Louisiana in 1821 and ended up ...

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