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Walt Whitman

Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman is the author of Leaves of Grass...
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		Politics and Patriotism
		Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg

		America by Robert Creeley

		America by Claude McKay

		America by James Monroe Whitfield

		American History by Michael S. Harper

		American Names by Stephen Vincent Benét

		Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da

		Children of Our Era by Wislawa Szymborska

		Dear George Bush by Kristin Prevallet

		December 2, 2002 by Juliana Spahr

		Election Day, November, 1884 by Walt Whitman

		Election Year by Donald Revell

		Exquisite Candidate by Denise Duhamel

		Exquisite Politics by Denise Duhamel

		Fellini in Purgatory by Jean Valentine

		Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind by Carl Sandburg

		How We Did It by Muriel Rukeyser

		I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

		In a Country by Larry Levis

		it: a user’s guide by Evie Shockley

		Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

		Modern Declaration by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman

		Patriotics by David Baker

		Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander

		Thanksgiving Letter from Harry by Carl Dennis

		The Condoleezza Suite [Excerpt] by Nikky Finney

		To Roosevelt by Rubén Darío

Delicate Cluster
by Walt Whitman

Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing! How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!) Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dappled! Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty! My sacred one, my mother.