TWA Poet: Walt Whitman

May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

It’s the birthday of Walt Whitman, born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, in 1819. He worked as a printer, and then a journalist. During the 1860s, Whitman worked as a clerk for the government, although he was fired from his job at the Indian Bureau when the director found out he’d written a collection of “indecent” poetry; Leaves of Grass was publi…