2019

two individuals with coffee
Interview | Rory Spearing
photo of a thermostat in yellow light
Nonfiction | Paige Towers
photo of a window in black and white
Poetry | John Linstrom
Clifton Webb and Gene Tierney in Laura
Review | Grant Tracey
Dark forest sky
Poetry | John Sibley Williams
Image of a person eating breakfast and reading
Poetry | Owen McLeod
Whitman and ferns
Every Atom | No. 200
Whitman with a spiral
Every Atom | No. 199
Whitman with a harvest halo
Every Atom | No. 198
White columns on a black background
Every Atom | No. 197
block text of "99 Ryerson Street"
Every Atom | No. 196
Circles of words and phrases
Every Atom | No. 195
Grid of all twelve photos in the essay with early Whitman portrait
Every Atom | No. 194
Paula Modersohn-Becker's painting Old Peasant Woman
Translation | Marella Feltrin-Morris
close up of a black snake
Nonfiction | Theodora Ziolkowski
Sunrise yoga with Leaves of Grass lettering
Every Atom | No. 193
Luigi Pirandello
Nonfiction | Marella Feltrin-Morris
Manuscript in Whitman's hand
Every Atom | No. 192
Whitman in triplicate
Every Atom | No. 191
Acorus Calamus botanical drawing with Eakins nudes
Every Atom | No. 190
gas stove flame close up
Nonfiction | Gayla Marty
18th century architecture
Every Atom | No. 189
Franklin Pierce on horseback
Every Atom | No. 188
Young girl reading on couch
Nonfiction | Filiz Turhan
Woven space
Every Atom | No. 187
Whitman's psychedelic torso
Every Atom | No. 186
Whitman's tomb
Every Atom | No. 185
US expansion and Wounded Knee
Every Atom | No. 184
Whitman quote, signature and portrait
Every Atom | No. 183
Single eye in a field of colors
Every Atom | No. 182
light dance
Every Atom | No. 181
Whitman overlooking meadows
Every Atom | No. 180
Huddled figure among roots
Every Atom | No. 179
Colorful Whitman in a library
Every Atom | No. 178
Skulls and beef
Every Atom | No. 177
Image by Paul Schafer
Review | Rachel Morgan
Whitman at a train
Every Atom | No. 176
love doctor Whitman
Every Atom | No. 175
Orange abstract whitman
Every Atom | No. 174
Image of mailboxes against greenery
Nonfiction | John Guzlowski
Blue Whitman
Every Atom | No. 173
a collection of iconic landmarks
Every Atom | No. 172
Whitman on some of his writings
Every Atom | No. 171
a wall of leaves with eyes peering out
Every Atom | No. 170
metal atom set
Every Atom | No. 169
lamp and books on a table, lampshade is crooked
Nonfiction | Ted Morrissey
fractured horizon
Every Atom | No. 168
Whitman over a crowd
Every Atom | No. 167
Photo by Rosie Fraser
Poetry | Jason Tandon
Whitman in brown liquid
Every Atom | No. 166
Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear, 1962
Review | Grant Tracey
hands touching over red background
Every Atom | No. 165
an eye with leaves in the pupil
Every Atom | No. 164
skull over Whitman's head
Every Atom | No. 163
Whitman in the grass
Every Atom | No. 162
a print eagle
Every Atom | No. 161
chalky whitman imprint
Every Atom | No. 160
Photo by Patrick McManaman
Poetry | Rosebud Ben-Oni
Whitman in a crowd
Every Atom | No. 159
Young Whitman with signature
Every Atom | No. 158
American flag over Whitman
Every Atom | No. 157
Shattered Whitman
Every Atom | No. 156
Blue and purple abstract
Every Atom | No. 155
bathroom stall
Nonfiction | Erin Murphy
Footprints around a sewer grate
Every Atom | No. 154
Whitman between the covers
Every Atom | No. 153
Image of an engagement ring in a white box against a white background
You Were the One
Whitman's face in a lagoon
Every Atom | No. 152
Photo montage of eight Walt Whitman portraits
Every Atom | No. 151
Photo montage of Whitman family
Every Atom | No. 150
Splatter painting of Whitman
Every Atom | No. 149
man chiseling with Whitman
Every Atom | No. 148
Whitman in a dance theater
Every Atom | No. 147
Electric outline of Whitman
Every Atom | No. 146
Photo by Jesse Orico
Nonfiction | Alice Friman
abstract blue segments
Every Atom | No. 145
Whitman with various written lines
Every Atom | No. 144
red tinted window
Every Atom | No. 143
painted close up whitman
Every Atom | No. 142
wooded area with Whitman
Every Atom | No. 141
Photo by Robina Weermeijer
Nonfiction | Theodore Carter
Whitman bubbles
Every Atom | No. 140
an eye with Whitman and words inside
Every Atom | No. 139
Cauldron
Poetry | Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Ransom Note
Review | Grant Tracey
Grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln
Poetry | Phil Tabakow
mountainscape of Whitman
Every Atom | No. 138
Smoky bridge with Whitman by an American flag
Every Atom | No. 137
Drawn Whitman
Every Atom | No. 136
Whitman in a tv set in a tv set in a tv set
Every Atom | No. 135
Whitman over a village
Every Atom | No. 134
High Heels
Poetry | Sandy Longhorn
Whitman in a theater
Every Atom | No. 133
Multilayered, colored Whitman
Every Atom | No. 132
Detail of Vermeer's painting "The Music Lesson"
Poetry | Michael White
Whitman and himself
Every Atom | No. 131
Multicolored Whitman
Every Atom | No. 130
intimate drawn Whitman
Every Atom | No. 129
Whitman stamps in different colors
Every Atom | No. 128
engraved Whitman on stone
Every Atom | No. 127
Whitman with a green tint and clouds
Every Atom | No. 126
Illustration of Dante's Inferno showing the River Lethe
Poetry | Marilyn Kallet
a split image of the world trade center on 9/11
Every Atom | No. 125
Background Text
Poetry | Daniel Uncapher
reflected Whitman with a clock in the background
Every Atom | No. 124
Old photo of Whitman
Every Atom | No. 123
yellow man
Every Atom | No. 122
Whitman and anatomy
Every Atom | No. 121
Whitman with signatures
Every Atom | No. 120
saturated landscape
Every Atom | No. 119
a grainy Whitman painting
Every Atom | No. 118
Dominoes
Nonfiction | Jody Hobbs Hesler
Whitman next to legs
Every Atom | No. 117
Still image from the movie The Big Sleep
Review | Grant Tracey
Whitman with censored eyes
Every Atom | No. 116
Image of tattooed legs from book cover
Review | Daniel G. Payne
Apothecary shelves
Every Atom | No. 115
whitman with head morphing into an aurora
Every Atom | No. 114
Octopus Graphic
Fiction | Lauren Marie Schmidt
Whitman and Melville on coins
Every Atom | No. 113
Remington Rifles
Nonfiction | Andrew Jones
William H. Gass
Review | Ted Morrissey
a graduation cap with whitman
Every Atom | No. 112
mountainscape
Every Atom | No. 111
Burgos Cathedral
Nonfiction | Nina Barrigan
various whitman images faded on top of one another
Every Atom | No. 110
whitman in front of a sunrise
Every Atom | No. 109
Painting of the bottom half of a zebra with seven legs
Review | Richard Goodman
a colorful scene through a stone arch
Every Atom | No. 108
Baseball field overlayed with grass
Every Atom | No. 107
Broken Glass
Poetry | Dylan Loring
Whitman in a vibrant gradient
Every Atom | No. 106
Whitman in a vibrant haze
Every Atom | No. 105
electronic green splatters
Every Atom | No. 104
Snowdon Mountain, Wales
Nonfiction | Rosalind Buckton-Tucker
a simplistic hill
Every Atom | No. 103
an individual reading a book
Every Atom | No. 102
leafs in a modern design
Every Atom | No. 101
Leaves overlaying a football scene
Every Atom | No. 100
vaporwave blue design
Every Atom | No. 99
razorback sucker
Nonfiction | Emily Wortman-Wunder
a hand caressing a leaf
Every Atom | No. 98
A drawn ear
Every Atom | No. 97
Drawing of Robert F Kennedy Assassination
Nonfiction | Marcus A. Hennessy
Pair of gray lips
Every Atom | No. 96
A hand reaching out in darkness
Every Atom | No. 95
Whitman foregrounded on a scroll of cursive
Every Atom | No. 94
a black image with the word "urge" cut out revealing Whitman
Every Atom | No. 93
Satellite Image of Kansas Fields
Nonfiction | Adrienne Lamberti
Whitman faded into a hillscape
Every Atom | No. 92
Etching of a close up on a face
Every Atom | No. 91
Whitman's Head in the clouds
Every Atom | No. 90
Whitmans profile cut out of various scenes of nature
Every Atom | No. 89
hand drawn lilacs
Every Atom | No. 88
Ashes
Review | Jesse Swan
"Babe of Vegetation" illustration by Allen Crawford
Every Atom | No. 87
a leaf printed with various Whitamn images
Every Atom | No. 86
Bengal tiger in a cage
Poetry | Elizabeth Knapp
Whitman as grass, grass as Whitman
Every Atom | No. 85
Candle Flame
Nonfiction | N.T. McQueen
An Egyptian sarcophagus
Every Atom | No. 84
A glimmering tuft of grass
Every Atom | No. 83
Portrait of Philip Levine by Geoffrey Berliner
Poetry | Philip Levine
cursive saying "written by Walt Whitman, a friend"
Every Atom | No. 82
Yours Truly, Kurt Vonnegut Signature
Review | Jeremy C. Justus
vibrant design
Every Atom | No. 81
red, yellow, and blue whitmans
Every Atom | No. 80
Whitman's chest with transparent lungs
Every Atom | No. 79
a word in cursive written repeatedly
Every Atom | No. 78
Graphic of Benedict Arnold
Fiction | Brendan Egan
printing tiles
Every Atom | No. 77
Portrait of Philip Levine by Geoffrey Berliner
Poetry | Philip Levine
ships reflected on themselves
Every Atom | No. 76
Whitman between boots
Every Atom | No. 75
Ghost of Whitman on an urban stoop
Every Atom | No. 74
Castor and Pollux
Every Atom | No. 73
Walt Whitman, Peter Doyle, and Penn Station
Every Atom | No. 72
Man within a purple eye
Every Atom | No. 71
Armillary sphere against the night sky
Every Atom | No. 70
etchings of various animals
Every Atom | No. 69
Portrait of Philip Levine by Geoffrey Berliner
Poetry | Philip Levine
Whitman sitting at a table with some animals
Every Atom | No. 68
a galaxy in a dew drop
Every Atom | No. 67
A very jolly looking Whitman
Every Atom | No. 66
Stereo image of old print shop, with frontispiece to 1855 Leaves of Grass
Every Atom | No. 65
Whitman looms over a burial mound
Every Atom | No. 64
Earth with a mobius strip around it
Every Atom | No. 63
Arjuna Karna final battle, Kurukshetra war, 12th-century Mahabharata relief
Every Atom | No. 62
Set of newspaper and periodical stamps from 1879
Nonfiction | Travis Kurowski
Curtains being pulled back to reveal a celestial body with Whitman's face
Every Atom | No. 61
Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve
Review | Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan
Portrait of Philip Levine
Nonfiction | Jeffrey Skinner
Young Whitman, earth and grass
Every Atom | No. 60
Mirror images of Whitman by G. Frank Pearsall
Every Atom | No. 59
Cartoon of Trump on top of Whitman face
Every Atom | No. 58
Whitman at the Washington Women's March
Every Atom | No. 57
a rusty keyhole with whitman inside
Every Atom | No. 56
Witch burning
Every Atom | No. 55
Three Whitmans fading into a celestial background
Every Atom | No. 54
transparent blue woman and a frog
Every Atom | No. 53
A blue face with a sticker that has latin for "thus always to tyrants"
Every Atom | No. 52
Dark eye with red iris with image of a Native American inside
Every Atom | No. 51
Whitman's figure next to a small home
Every Atom | No. 50
Walt Whitman and grass.
Every Atom | No. 49
A floral-pattern bedspread.
Every Atom | No. 48
Cupped hands
Every Atom | No. 47
Red and blue hands holding one another
Every Atom | No. 46
Whitman in 3/4 profile.
Every Atom | No. 45
Whitman against the night sky.
Every Atom | No. 44
blurry lights through a window
Every Atom | No. 43
wooded scene with a drawn in white house outline
Every Atom | No. 42
Profile of Whitman over a forest scene
Every Atom | No. 41
Hawk in flight.
Every Atom | No. 40
star filled dusk night through some trees
Every Atom | No. 39
Hawk in flight.
Every Atom | No. 38
White outline of a bird on a branch in front of mountainscape
Every Atom | No. 37
bookish mountainscape
Every Atom | No. 36
Whitman with a cellphone reading "dead"
Every Atom | No. 35
Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, within the text of the word "understand"
Every Atom | No. 34
Diagonal fractures of faces
Every Atom | No. 33
Walt Whitman with a butterfly over his face.
Every Atom | No. 32
Line drawing of a face over rumpled bedding
Every Atom | No. 31
Two men kissing
Every Atom | No. 30
golden profile on a dark patterned background
Every Atom | No. 29
mans face covered in plastic
Every Atom | No. 28
layers of zoomed in frames of Whitman's face
Every Atom | No. 27
"&" symbol with Whitman's face therein
Every Atom | No. 26
Walt Whitman in the cosmos
Every Atom | No. 25
abstract quilting pattern. red, white, and blue spiral
Every Atom | No. 24
Whitman's face through a treeline
Every Atom | No. 23
A cliff side with faint WWII imagery on it
Every Atom | No. 22
Whitman's face through green lights
Every Atom | No. 21
overlapping leaf shapes forming a flower
Every Atom | No. 20
Bare trees with an iris in the sky
Every Atom | No. 19
Walt Whitman at his birthplace
Every Atom | No. 18
negatively colored ship mast amid an icescape
Every Atom | No. 17
Drawing of a brown plant
Every Atom | No.16
a painted ferry
Every Atom | No. 15
a cluster of jellyfish
Every Atom | No. 14
A blade of grass
Every Atom | No. 13
Whitman heads bobbing on drawn waves
Every Atom | No. 12
picture of Whitman reflected on and tinted by a red and blue background
Every Atom | No. 11
stylized lip overlapping
Every Atom | No. 10
The word "Afflatus" with Whitman shown through it
Every Atom | No. 9
Whitman's handwriting
Every Atom | No. 8
picture of a blue tinted shadowy face
Every Atom | No. 7
hospital scene shown within a picture frame
Every Atom | No. 6
Ferry-boats in the water
Every Atom | No. 5
Image of Walt Whitman superimposed over a bird
Every Atom | No. 4
Cover image by Sarah Pauls
Every Atom | No. 3
Cover image by Sarah Pauls
Every Atom | No. 2
Walt Whitman background image
Every Atom | No. 1
Walt Whitman background image
Every Atom | Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200
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Nonfiction | David Ebenbach
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Nonfiction | Patrick J. Murphy
Illustration by Matt Manley of several people, abstract
Review | Daegan Miller
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Final Thursday Reading Series: Vince Gotera
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Nonfiction | Susan Swaney
Illustration by Grace Russell of a man juxtaposed with tree branches
Nonfiction | April Darcy
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Final Thursday Reading Series: Patricia O'Donnell
Illustration of man with his head in the clouds
Nonfiction | Miah Jeffra
Photo courtesy of Unsplash of a world map on a desk
Translation | Suzanne O'Connell
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Tina Kelley: On "Three Endings"
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My Armchair Relationship with the Polar Regions by Jeanne Wagner
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Tim Liardet: On Hearing of a 98.2% Chance of Heavy Precipitation a Bot Considers the Question of Negative Probability
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Nonfiction | Sarah Anderson
Profile image by Matt Manley
Nonfiction | Chris Johnson
Image of electrical wiring
Poetry | Stephen Haven
jellyfish on black background
Awards | 2019 Kurt Vonnegut Prize in Speculative Literature
bouquet of pink roses on black
Nonfiction | Natasha Sajé
Illustration by Anthony Tremmaglia
Review | Tara Ballard
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Repurposed Text Poems
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Invisibility and Writing
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On "Bread"
Image by Masaaki Komori of yellow flowers against a blue sky
Writing, No Writing: Cultivating the Emptiness of the Page
Illustration by Grace Russell of cyclist in the woods
The White Whale, or Asking Why, in the Mojave Desert
Illustration by Jane Bodil
The Poetry of Periods
Illustration by Daniel Zender
Me and World War I
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Steve Horowitz Reviews "Voices After Evelyn"
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On Writing to Time and "Trace"
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On Writing "Sanctuary"
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On "Llama Berserk Syndrome"
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On "Waiting for Andy"
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On "Cold Night in Waterloo"
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The Trouble with Memoir
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Dear Millennium, Close to the Bone: On Nature, Poets, and Oneiromancy
Photo by Paul Casals
an ode to public transportation
Illustration by Anthony Tremmaglia
On "My dead husband"
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The Mystery of Writerly Material
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On "Horace, I Dream of Watches"
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Witnessing Nature: Thoughts on "Sunfall with Bat House"
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A Fire Threaded Through It: The Disappearance of the Florida Panther
Photo by John Michael Thomson
Susan's Almanac Project
Photo by Natalie Rhea Riggs
About the Horse Crippler
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A Lesson in Sound and Form
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On "The Florist Thinks"
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From the Pages of NAR: Brief Book Reviews
Photo by Tyler Nix
The In-Between
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On "Mary and the Machine"
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Final Thursday Reading Series
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How to Read Narcissus Flowers
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Same Difference
Illustration by Daniel Zender
The Day I Was Protected
Header Graphic: Typewriter against a dark, wooden desk | Image Credit: Patrick Fore
Awards | 2019 James Hearst Poetry Prize
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Silence, Urgency, Vulnerability: Recommendations for a Writer's Life
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So Many Steps Behind Her
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Robert Garner McBrearty on "Black Fin"
Photo by Nong Vang
Five Nonfiction Books to Read