KELLY: Another poet to consider tonight - the American classic, Walt Whitman. TAYLOR: It's hard to have a conversation about poetry and democracy without mentioning Walt Whitman.

Kelly’s wonderland, like Lewis Carroll’s, is a place of deep humor and concomitantly deep pain — a mixture of childhood and adulthood. It’s a place where poetry arises casually ...

In 2019, the eminent Australian songwriter Paul Kelly published Love is Strong as Death, an anthology of poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to ...

The words come from a poem called "The Dresser" in a book Walt Whitman published in 1865 titled "Drum-Taps." Answer Man confesses he’d never read the poem before but is glad for the opportunity.