has been selected as the winner of the American Academy of Poets’ 2016 Walt Whitman Award for emerging poets. Vang’s debut collection of poems, "Afterland," centers around the "secret war" in ...

Walt Whitman offers ... figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing poems that he hoped would help ...

By Ronald Johnson Selected by Anne Boyer If you grow up in ... His work has always been like a secret beauty, too — often circulating in poetry’s subterranean networks, treasured by readers ...

In the late 1850s, Walt Whitman wrote Calamus: a sequence of 45 poems about camaraderie, friendship, and love among men, which he included in the 1860 edition of his collected poems, Leaves of Grass.