Walt Whitman's Long Island: A Research Guide

Vanishing Leaves is a location-based mobile experience which takes players to Brooklyn Heights to learn about Walt Whitman in the neighborhood where he wrote and published the first edition of Leaves of Grass.

CUNY Graduate Center, May 9, 2019.

Explore the places that Whitman experienced and was inspired by through self-guided walking tours developed by the Walt Whitman Initiative.

The Walt Whitman Initiative is an international collective bringing together all people interested in the life and work of Walt Whitman. Includes event listings, online resources, and more.

A literary quarterly sponsored by the Graduate College and the Department of English and published by The University of Iowa. WWQR is the official journal of the Walt Whitman Studies Association, affiliated with the American Literature Association. Beginning with volume 33, no. 1 (summer 2015) the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review has become an open-access, online-only publication.

A journal first published out of Walt Whitman’s house on Mickle Street in Camden, and now revived as a project of the Walt Whitman Program in American Studies at Rutgers University in Camden.

A project of Lehigh University.
Walt Whitman memorialized "The vault at Pfaffs where the drinkers and laughers meet to eat and drink and carouse" in an unfinished poem from the early 1860s.

The Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Online Critical Edition is a new approach to interacting with literature online. This project was created by Jesse Merandy, the managing editor and designer for the Mickle Street Review and a Ph.D. student at CUNY’s Graduate Center.

WhitmanWeb is a collaboration between the International Writing Program and the Walt Whitman Archive, both institutions grounded in the deep literary culture of the University of Iowa.The website was launched in 2012, featuring Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” in nine languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian (in two versions), Spanish, and Ukrainian. Arabic (in two versions), Malay, Polish, Romanian, Khmer, Kurdish and Filipino translations followed in 2013 and 2014.

A project of the University of Texas at Austin.