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Tina Blue's Beginner's Guide to Prosody, exactly what the title says, and well worth reading.
Epicanthic Fold: "If a guy somewhere in Asia makes a blog and no one reads it, does it really exist?"
popomo.net, miniature, minimalist-inspired sculptures created from industrial cereamics, an art project at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
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Save Point 0.8.1, a Portland, Oregon, exhibit, Aug. 13-Sept. 5, 2004, at Disjecta.

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Poetry of
Walt Whitman

1819-1892

Aboard at a Ship's Helm
A Boston Ballad [1854]
Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
A Broadway Pageant
A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
A Child's Amaze
A Christmas Greeting
A Clear Midnight
Adieu to a Soldier
A Farm Picture
A Font of Type
After the Dazzle of Day
After the Sea-Ship
After the Supper and Talk
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
A Glimpse
A Hand-Mirror
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
A Leaf for Hand in Hand
All Is Truth
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
America
Among the Multitude
An Army Corps on the March
An Ended Day
An Evening Lull
A Noiseless Patient Spider
An Old Man's Thought of School
A Paumanok Picture
A Persian Lesson
Apparitions
A Prairie Sunset
A Promise to California
Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
A Riddle Song
As Adam Early in the Morning
As at Thy Portals Also Death
As Consequent, Etc.
Ashes of Soldiers
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
As I Ponder'd in Silence
As I Sit Writing Here
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
A Song for Occupations
A Song of Joys
A Song of the Rolling Earth
Assurances
As the Greek's Signal Flame
As the Time Draws Nigh
As They Draw to a Close
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
A Twilight Song
A Voice from Death
A Woman Waits for Me
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Beautiful Women
Beginners
Beginning My Studies
Behold This Swarthy Face
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
Bravo, Paris Exposition!
Broadway
By Blue Ontario's Shore
By Broad Potomac's Shore
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
Camps of Green
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Chanting the Square Deific
City of Orgies
City of Ships
Come Up from the Fields Father
Continuities
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Darest Thou Now O Soul
Death of General Grant
Delicate Cluster
Dirge for Two Veterans
Earth, My Likeness
Eidolons
Eighteen Sixty-One
Election Day, November, 1884
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
Excelsior
Faces
Facing West from California's Shores
Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love!
First O Songs for a Prelude
For Him I Sing
For You, O Democracy
France [the 18th Year of these States]
From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876]
From Montauk Point
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
Full of Life Now
Germs
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Gliding O'er all
Gods
"Going Somewhere"
Good-Bye My Fancy
Good-Bye My Fancy!
Grand Is the Seen
Halcyon Days
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865]
I Am He That Aches with Love
I Dream'd in a Dream
I Hear America Singing
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
In Paths Untrodden
Interpolation Sounds
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
I Saw Old General at Bay
I Sing the Body Electric
I Sit and Look Out
Italian Music in Dakota
I Was Looking a Long While
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
Kosmos
Laws for Creations
Leaves of Grass, Preface
Life
Life and Death
Lingering Last Drops
Locations and Times
L. of G.'s Purport
Long, Long Hence
Long, Too Long America
Look Down Fair Moon
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Mannahatta
Mannahatta
Mediums
Me Imperturbe
Memories
Miracles
Mirages
Mother and Babe
My 71st Year
My Canary Bird
My Legacy
My Picture-Gallery
Myself and Mine
Native Moments
Night on the Prairies
No Labor-Saving Machine
Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only
Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
Not the Pilot
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Now Finale to the Shore
Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
O Captain! My Captain!
Offerings
Of Him I Love Day and Night
Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
Old Age's Lambent Peaks
Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's
Old Chants
Old Ireland
Old Salt Kossabone
Old War-Dreams
O Living Always, Always Dying
O Magnet-South
O Me! O Life!
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
One Hour to Madness and Joy
One's-Self I Sing
On Journeys Through the States
On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
On the Beach at Night
On the Beach at Night Alone
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
Osceola
O Star of France [1870-71]
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
Others May Praise What They Like
Our Old Feuillage
Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
Out of May's Shows Selected
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Passage to India
Patroling Barnegat
Paumanok
Pensive and Faltering
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
Perfections
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Poets to Come
Portals
Prayer of Columbus
Proud Music of the Storm
Queries to My Seventieth Year
Quicksand Years
Race of Veterans
Reconciliation
Recorders Ages Hence
Red Jacket (From Aloft)
Reversals
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
Sail out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!
Salut au Monde!
Savantism
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
Shut Not Your Doors
Small the Theme of My Chant
So Long!
Sometimes with One I Love
Song at Sunset
Song for All Seas, All Ships
Song of Myself
Song of Prudence
Song of the Answerer
Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Song of the Broad-Axe
Song of the Exposition
Song of the Open Road
Song of the Redwood-Tree
Song of the Universal
Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
Sounds of the Winter
Spain, 1873-74
Sparkles from the Wheel
Spirit That Form'd This Scene
Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
Spontaneous Me
Starting from Paumanok
Still Though the One I Sing
Stronger Lessons
Tears
Tests
Thanks in Old Age
That Music Always Round Me
That Shadow My Likeness
The Artilleryman's Vision
The Base of All Metaphysics
The Bravest Soldiers
The Calming Thought of All
The Centenarian's Story
The City Dead-House
The Commonplace
The Dalliance of the Eagles
The Dead Emperor
The Dead Tenor
The Dismantled Ship
The Dying Veteran
The First Dandelion
The Imprisoned Soul
The Last Invocation
The Mystic Trumpeter
The Ox-Tamer
The Pallid Wreath
The Prairie-Grass Dividing
The Prairie States
The Return of the Heroes
There Was a Child Went Forth
"The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"
The Runner
These Carols
These I Singing in Spring
The Ship Starting
The Singer in the Prison
The Sleepers
The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
The Torch
The Unexpress'd
The United States to Old World Critics
The Untold Want
The Voice of the Rain
The Wallabout Martyrs
The World below the Brine
The Wound-Dresser
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
This Compost
This Dust Was Once the Man
This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
Thought
Thought
Thought
Thought
Thought
Thoughts
Thoughts
Thoughts
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
Thou Reader
To a Certain Cantatrice
To a Certain Civilian
To a Common Prostitute
To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire
To a Historian
To a Locomotive in Winter
To a President
To a Pupil
To a Stranger
To a Western Boy
To-Day and Thee
To Foreign Lands
To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
To Him That Was Crucified
To Old Age
To One Shortly to Die
To Rich Givers
To the East and to the West
To Thee Old Cause
To the Garden the World
To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod
To the Man-of-War-Bird
To the Pending Year
To the States
To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
To the Sun-Set Breeze
To Think of Time
To Those Who've Fail'd
To You
To You
Transpositions
Trickle Drops
True Conquerors
Turn O Libertad
Twenty Years
Twilight
Unfolded out of the Folds
Unnamed Land
Unseen Buds
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Virginia--The West
Visor'd
Vocalism
Wandering at Morn
Warble for Lilac-Time
Washington's Monument February, 1885
Weave in, My Hardy Life
We Two Boys Together Clinging
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
What Am I After All
What Best I See in Thee
What Place Is Besieged?
What Ship Puzzled at Sea
What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
When I Persue the Conquer'd Fame
When I Read the Book
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
When the Full-Grown Poet Came
While Not the Past Forgetting
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
With All Thy Gifts
With Antecedents
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
World Take Good Notice
Year of Meteors [1859-60]
Years of the Modern
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
Yonnondio
You Felons on Trial in Courts
You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

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