Poem Selected by Anne Boyer Poem: From ‘Letters to Walt Whitman’ Ronald Johnson’s work has long been a secret beauty, treasured by readers but difficult to find.

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.

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...