Edward Whitley

EDWARD WHITLEY {[email protected]} is professor and chair of the department of English at Lehigh University. He is the author of American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet (UNC Press, 2010) and co-editor, with Joanna Levin, of Whitman among the Bohemians (University of Iowa Press, 2014) and Walt Whitman in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Articles

Book of Mormon Poetry James Goldberg, A Book of Lamentations

A few years ago I was researching poems written about the Book of Mormon. I had read Eliza R. Snow’s “The Lamanite” (adapted from a poem she wrote before becoming a Latter-day Saint titled “The…

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Welcome Additions | Karen Kelsay, Of Omens that Flitter; Javen Tanner, The God Mask.

Karen Kelsay’s Of Omens that Flitter delivers on the promise that lyric poetry has made since at least the nineteenth century to let readers overhear the musings of a thoughtful, deep-feeling person as she reflects…

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