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Fellow Finds Forgotten Walt Whitman Verse in Vault

Posted on December 2, 2014 by in The OFI Blog

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SAAM fellow Wendy Katz

As reported by Omaha.com, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) fellow Wendy Katz, recently published an article about her discovery of a forgotten poem written by famous American author and poet, Walt Whitman.

She discovered this poem while researching her book, “The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1861″ while she worked as a fellow at SAAM.

You can read the poem and full article here.

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Walt Whitman