The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. Walt Whitman’s “I ...

In eleven short lines, poet Walt Whitman captured the spirit of a nation. His poem "I Hear America Singing" is part of his poetry volume, Leaves of Grass. The poem was first written before the Civil ...

Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves ...

In 1860, on the eve of our nation’s Civil War, Walt Whitman wrote his celebrated poem, “I Hear America Singing.” My interpretation is that the poem spoke to an underlying harmony among all Americans ...

Walt Whitman heard America singing. Carpenter, boatman, mother, washerwoman. Young fellows “Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.” In Matthew Aucoin’s troublingly perceptive opera, ...

Join us in a respite from the daily drumbeat of news to wish the great American poet and champion of our nation’s ideals, Walt Whitman, a happy 200th birthday. We do this not just because Whitman was ...

One look at the database of the George Lynn Collection (housed at the AMRC) reveals hundreds of choral compositions penned by Lynn–most of them remaining in manuscript form and therefore not published ...