About

This site is a companion to Daily Dickinson, an Emily Dickinson site. Like Daily Dickinson, Weekly Whitman will feature regular poems, beginning with “Song of Myself” from Leaves of Grass, and occasional news, thoughts, and observations about Walt Whitman.

About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. In his use of free verse, his sensuality, and his unabashed championing of democracy, Whitman was distinctive among American poets of his time. His epic “Song of Myself,” his poems on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, “O Captain! My Captain!”), and his New York poetry (“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, “Mannahatta”) have become part of the American literary canon.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman, from the preface to “Leaves of Grass”

About Me

I am a writer and photographer living in Minneapolis with my wife and twin sons. In addition to Weekly Whitman, I also maintain Daily Dickinson, an Emily Dickinson site; Hey Jack Kerouac, a Jack Kerouac site; and From a Farther Room, with photography and news of my own writing.