Walt Whitman Archive

And now that the piece is officially posted, let me add my congrats. Amy's discovery is really crucial for how we understand Whitman's involvement with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle--well past his editorship in the 1840s. Give it a read! @BklynEagle

@BklynEagle More on Whitman and the Brooklyn Waterworks forthcoming in Technology & Culture (@SocHistTech) and on @WhitmanArchive via @NEHgov grant. For more context, read Karen Karbiener's (@waltwhitmaninit) excellent essay on Whitman at the Brooklyn Daily Times (doi.org/10.13008/0737-…)

☛☛☛New issue: pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/wwqr/issue/114… Includes an essay on Dylan Thomas's impact on the "Whitmanian turn" of the post-war US culture, 2 exciting discoveries, 1 review, and our ongoing bibliography. Image: Whitman's portrait hanging above Thomas's writing desk (Hulton Archive)

"Writing the Brain" @OxUniPress has arrived (officially out 9/19) and is apparently quite tasty. Thrilled to see it in print! Thanks to @hannahsdoyle and her team at OUP and to @jdurhampeters and @annestiles8 for the wonderful blurbs! (more info here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…)

Happy Halloween from the Whitman Archive UNL crew!

We hope you enjoy these hilarious workout routines dreamed up by @SmithsonianMag, one of which was inspired by Whitman (they call it "Leaves of Kicking Ass")! You can read "Manly Health and Training," one of the sources mentioned in the article, here: whitmanarchive.org/published/peri…

From L ➡️ R: @unsworth, Sarah Lynn Patterson, K.J. Dawson, @julia_flanders, Dirk Van Hulle, Elena Pierazzo, Ken Price, Matt Cohen, @Dean_Stephanie, Brett Barney, @MartaWerner9, Caterina Bernardini, Ed Folsom, and Kevin McMullen. Not pictured: @whitneytrettien and @fotisja.

We loved having some of our favorite scholars of digital editing visit UNL last week for our symposium on the WWA and the future of scholarly editing! Invigorating ideas from bright minds.✨ Thanks to @unlcas, @CDRH_UNL, and @UNL_Lib, @UNLresearch & many more for your support!

Happy Spring, everyone! #waltwhitman #waltwhitmanbirthplace #huntingtonny #lilacs

PBS's third season of @PoetryInAmerica kicks off its third season on January 21 (check local listings) with an episode titled "The Wound-Dresser" and featuring our very own Whitman scholars Ken Price & Brett Barney. Tune in to learn more about this "unforgettable American poem!"

Thanks to the generous support of @NHPRC, last month we were able to publish 459 additional letters: 458 from Whitman's Late-Life period (1888-92) and 1 from the Reconstruction period (1877-87). 🥳 See more of Whitman's Late-Life correspondence here: whitmanarchive.org/biography/corr…

Our project co-director Ken Price wrote a blog post for @OUPAcademic based on his new book _Whitman in Washington_. Read it here! blog.oup.com/.../whitman-an…

Thanks to a collaboration with art historian Ruth Bohan, we have published a new selection of art reviews that Whitman wrote while editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, complete with an introduction and annotations. Check them out here: bit.ly/2SmfV0p

New special double issue on our website! A focus on International Whitman with three essays, a review essay, and our ongoing Whitman bibliography: ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/ (Drawing by Pablo Mañé Garzón)🌿🌿"I salute all the inhabitants of the earth" #waltwhitman #leavesofgrass

Our Graduate Research Assistant Caitlin Matheis recently visited Whitman's burial site in Camden, NJ and was happy to report that there's a bit of holiday cheer there, despite the challenges of 2020. 🎄 Happy holidays to all! ✨

Check out this timely short film adaptation of "I Hear America Singing" by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo English student Matthew Lam. Thanks to Dr. Catherine Waitinas for bringing her students' video series to our attention! youtube.com/watch?v=iyYdVU…

We have published a completely redesigned and updated gallery of portraits of Whitman! 🎉 It includes better searching, scans, and notes. Scroll through all your favorite photos of Whitman (including this gem) on one page here: whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/gal….

@librarycongress has a new crowdsourcing initiative to transcribe Whitman's prose to celebrate the 2020 National Book Festival. Try your hand at transcribing pieces from publications like the "United States Magazine and Democratic Review" here: crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/walt…?