About Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review is a literary quarterly sponsored by the Graduate College and the Department of English and published by The University of Iowa. WWQR is the official journal of the Walt Whitman Studies Association, affiliated with the American Literature Association. Beginning with volume 33, no. 1 (Summer 2015) the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review has become an open-access, online-only publication.

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American Literature Association Conference (May 25-28, 2023)
Posted by Stephanie M. Blalock on 2023-01-13

The American Literature Association is holding its 34th annual conference in Boston, MA, on May 25-28, 2023. The intention this year is to have a live, in-person conference, so there will be no virtual options for papers and no pre-recorded sessions. Details of the conference, including registration and hotel arrangements, are available at the ALA website.

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The Walt Whitman Initiative (WWI) invites applications for a fellowship program to encourage new research on Walt Whitman and his cultural legacy and to mentor a promising, public-minded scholar pursuing a career in the humanities. The fellowship will be available to graduate students and/or graduating seniors (college level and above) enrolled in a graduate program in the 2021-2022 [...]

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  • Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022

    Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022


About cover image

Walt Whitman’s clippings and notes on brain health and aging (Trent Collection, Duke University Libraries). See pages 189-208.

Front Matter


Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 39, no. 4

2022-07-07 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022

Essays


“The Battle Trumpet Blown!” : Whitman’s Persian Imitations in Drum-Taps

Roger Sedarat

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 163-188

Discoveries


Walt Whitman, Editor at the New-York Atlas

Stefan Schöberlein, Stephanie M. Blalock, Kevin McMullen and Jason Stacy

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 189-204

Appendix: Athletic Men Wanted—An Article for the Old and Young, for Doctors, Teachers, &c

2022-07-07 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 205-208

"The Indications" (1857): An Early Whitman Imitation

Zachary Turpin

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 209-212

Reviews


Kenneth M. Price. Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet.

Martin T. Buinicki

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 213-216

Morton Schoolman. A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics.

John E. Seery

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 216-219

Nicole Gray, ed. Leaves of Grass (1855) Variorum.

Edward Whitley

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 219-224

Caterina Bernardini. Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945.

Russell Scott Valentino

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 224-226

Stefan Schöberlein, ed. Walt Whitman’s New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles.

T. R. Johnson

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 227-229

Bibliography


Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Spring 2022

Ed Folsom

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 230-238

Announcements


In Memoriam: Joel Myerson (1945-2021)

Ezra Greenspan

2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 239-240

Back Matter


Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 39, no. 4

2022-07-07 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022