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 Susan Jaffe Tane Fellowship
Posted by Mark F. Anderson on 2021-08-27

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 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023

    Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023


About cover image

Whitman's portrait hanging above Dylan Thomas's writing desk in his boathouse studio at Laugharne, West Wales, December 21, 1953. Photo by Express/Stringer, Hulton Archive, via Getty Images. See pp. 95-126.

Front Matter


Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 40, no. 3/4

2023-09-22 Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023

Essays


“A Singing Walt from the Mower”: Dylan Thomas and the “Whitmanian [Re]turn” in the Post-War Poetic Culture of the States

M. Wynn Thomas

2023-09-23 Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023 • 95-126

Discoveries


“If you call on me I will tell you what I know of Walt”: Unrecorded Assessment of Walter and Walt Whitman by William Booth, Brooklyn Carpenter

Nathan Tye

2023-09-23 Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023 • 127-139

A Long-Lost Eagle Article Puts Walt and Jeff on the Map

Amy Kapp

2023-09-23 Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023 • 140-149

Reviews


Susan Jaffe Tane and Karen Karbiener. Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman.

Brandon James O'Neil

2023-09-23 Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023 • 150-153

Bibliography


Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter/Spring 2023

Ed Folsom

2023-09-23 Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023 • 154-161

Back Matter


Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 40, no. 3/4

2023-09-22 Volume 40 • Issue 3/4 • 2023