Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman. 5/23/2020 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. Aired 05/23/2020 | Expires ...

A few days ago, I unfurrowed my brow and abandoned my desk. I bought a $3 copy of "Leaves of Grass" and headed outdoors. Like millions of others since 1855, I fell instantly into the words of Walt ...

Walt Whitman’s America is large, it contains multitudes. When Edward Weston set out to photograph the United States of the 1940s for a new edition of the 19th-century poet’s Leaves of Grass ...

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.