WALT WHITMAN

POLITICS
Uncle Walt And Me
By Tom Engelhardt, Contributor
Editor, TomDispatch.com
Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com In 1985, at age 41, I visited Disney World for the first time. I remember the experience
ARTS & CULTURE
Bill Murray Is A Classical Musician Now
By Katherine Brooks
Don't question it.
ARTS & CULTURE
A Previously Unknown Walt Whitman Novella Was Discovered -- And It's Not Great
By Claire Fallon
"Leaves of Grass" lovers, assemble!
EDUCATION
Teaching the Greeks and Critical Thinking - Part 11: Does the Belief in an Afterlife Affect One's View of this Life?
By Frank Breslin, Contributor
Retired High-School Teacher
Student: But how could you even bear living if there weren't an afterlife? Life wouldn't have any meaning or purpose since
GOOD NEWS
I Hear America Singing (Sometimes It's the Blues)
By Paula Gordon, Contributor
Host-Producer: PaulaGordon.com/index.htm
Buddy Guy's reputation assured that the evening would be entertaining. I'd also looked forward to seeing Spokane's Fox Theater
RELIGION
Daily Meditation: I Hear America Singing
By Antonia Blumberg
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness
IMPACT
From Dickens, To Whitman, To Trump: A Literary Perspective
By Stephen Kuusisto, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
If history is a guide Americans will not be electing Donald Trump, even as they may find many practical or potential faults with Hillary Clinton. The latter is merely imperfect; the former offers a detested and despised face. As a citizenry in a fulsome democracy we still understand the difference.
EDUCATION
The Anthropology of Empowerment
By Diane Luby Lane, Contributor
Contributor
For more background on Get Lit Rising, Amazon's #1 new release in Teen & Young Adult Composition & Creative Writing, head
SCIENCE
From Broken Brains to Frankenstein: A Walt Whitman Birthday Listicle
By Kevin S. Weiner, Contributor
Neuroscience researcher, writer, human brain mapper, surfer, s...
Walt Whitman was born on this day in 1819. His lifespan overlapped with a period in neuroscience history that laid the foundation for today's exciting time of brain exploration. Though he would likely roll over in his grave at the word listicle, here are three ways Whitman is historically linked to the brain.
HEALTHY LIVING
Did Walt Whitman Really Promote A 'Paleo' Diet? Not Quite.
By Hilary Hanson
But do we really want to take nutrition advice from a 19th-century poet anyway?
PARENTING
The Wisdom of Knowing We Know Nothing at All
By Siobhan Kukolic, Contributor
Mother-of-three. Freelance writer. Blogger. Believer in dreams...
However, life is hard. There are bills to pay and little ones to take care of. Health issues and parents growing older. There
QUEER VOICES
Why Our Society Is So Terrified of Desire: Garth Greenwall in His Own Words
By Stefan Simanowitz, Contributor
Journalist; Writer; Broadcaster; and Human Rights Campaigner
In cruising you carve out these intimacies from public spaces. All of Whitman's poems are about cruising. All of Whitman's poems are about walking through the crowded streets of Manhattan and finding that one person with whom he can have an intimate encounter which, even though it is fleeting, has an infinite significance.
WELLNESS
How Much Enough Is Enough?
By Jill L. Ferguson, Contributor
Author, Artist, Founder of Women's Wellness Weekends
In a study conducted by the UK company Gocompare.com, researchers found that the average woman has more than 19 pairs of shoes and spends more than U.S. $25,000 during her lifetime on shoes.
RELIGION
Daily Meditation: You Are Here
By Antonia Blumberg
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness
WELLNESS
Wheelchair Wisdom: Unconditional Loving -- I Exist As I Am
By LINDA NOBLE TOPF, Contributor
I am a wellness/life coach; published author, WHEELCHAIR WISDO...
DO SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE ELSE Here's to being true to your authentic self, When practicing "living in the moment," you release
BOOKS
On Poetry: The Cultural Revolution -- and the Necessity of Culture
By Poetry Foundation, Contributor
Publisher of POETRY magazine.
By Ai Weiwei My father, Ai Qing, was an early influence of mine. He was a true poet, viewing all subjects through an innocent
BOOKS
Summer Reading: Meet Harper, Meet Theodor, Meet Walt, Meet America
By Frank Islam and Ed Crego, Contributors
As the time remaining for summer reading slips away, we'd like to turn our attention to and concentrate on three books -- two of which have just been discovered and one of which has been rediscovered -- that also say something about who we are as Americans
BOOKS
Robert Putnam's 'Our Kids' and the Story of Us
By Harry Boyte, Contributor
Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy, Sabo Center for Demo...
Putnam calls for citizens to lobby for federal policies such as expanded tax credits for the poor, more day care and growth in community colleges -- much the legislative agenda of President Obama, who was denounced for "class warfare" when he proposed it.
BOOKS
US Poetry Readership in Tens of Millions?
By Robert Peake, Contributor
American-born poet living in England, author of The Knowledge
Looking to settle the debate about poetry's slow decline into death, The Washington Post cites the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts to show a ten-year steady downtrend in public participation with poetry. The graph slides like a ramp down to just 6.7% in 2012.
BOOKS
Poetry Coast to Coast: American Poets Paul Fericano and George Wallace
By Robert Peake, Contributor
American-born poet living in England, author of The Knowledge
You could drive Route 66 from coast to coast to get a feel for the poetry of America. Or you could pick up copies of Fericano and Wallace, and read these poems out loud.
RELIGION
Daily Meditation: Cosmos
By Antonia Blumberg
Kosmos by Walt Whitman Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality
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