Something there is in Americans that doesn’t love a poet laureate. Full Article at Reason

An examination of the similarities and differences in how Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson approach the subjects of nature, death and immortality in their poetry. Seeking a great site for readers and writers of poetry? Look no farther! Full Article at Associated Content

RECKLESS In this dark comedy by Craig Lucas, a woman hits the road in a hurry and keeps going when she discovers on Christmas Eve that her husband has taken out a contract on her life. Subsequent holidays are no picnic, either. Through Dec. 12. Full Article at Boston Globe

yet there is solace to be found in the coming holiday. Wilkes Booth to the poet Walt Whitman, with the anonymous, such as a slave who saves enough money to send her boy to college, only to have him perish on the battlefield. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News

He was sweating the small details of the world-premiere of his choral piece “Song — After Walt Whitman.” How would the two young Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus tenors sound projecting from the balcony? Full Article at AZ starnet.com

By Arthur Herman 'There is the East, there is India and China," said Missouri Sen. Thomas Hart Benton in the Senate chamber in 1855—as he pointed over his shoulder due west. Full Article at Wall Street Journal