Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — Inventing Walt Whitman

Essay

• Diane Ackerman — Panes of Glass
• Meena Alexander — In Whitman’s Country
• David Baker — Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief
• David Haven Blake — Reading Whitman, Growing Up Rock 'n' Roll
• Rafael Campo — Whitman Now
• David Caplan — Whitman in Liège
• Michael Collier — On Whitman’s "To a Locomotive in Winter"
• Robert Creeley — Reflections on Whitman in Age
• Stephen Cushman — Whitman and Patriotism
• Mark Doty — Form, Eros, and the Unspeakable: Whitman’s Stanzas
• Ed Folsom — "What a Filthy Presidentiad!": Clinton’s Whitman, Bush’s Whitman, and Whitman’s America
• Sam Hamill — A Monk’s Tale
• Edward Hirsch — A Clear Midnight
• Jane Hirshfield — Section 26 of "Song of Myself" and Whitman’s Listening
• Galway Kinnell — Walt Whitman and Negative Capability
• David Kirby — Give Me Life Coarse and Rank
• William Logan — Prisoner, Fancy-Man, Rowdy, Lawyer, Physician, Priest: Whitman’s Brags
• Heather Morton — Democracy, Self-Reviews and the 1855 Leaves of Grass
• Kenneth M. Price — Whitman in Selected Anthologies: The Politics of His Afterlife
• Dave Smith — Whitman’s Sparkles
• Richard Tayson — The Casualties of Walt Whitman
• Natasha Trethewey — On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South
• Charles Wright — Old Papa Cosmos

VQR Gallery

• Ed Folsom and Ted Genoways — “This Heart’s Geography’s Map”: The Photographs of Walt Whitman

Poetry

• Robert Bly — After Reading “The Sleepers”
• Gregory Orr — Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved