Project
Looking for Whitman
Office of Digital Humanities

Photo caption
American poet Walt Whitman holding a butterfly.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Photo caption
American poet Walt Whitman holding a butterfly.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Walt Whitman advised readers to “look for me under your bootsoles.” Find him in the locations associated with his poems: Brooklyn and New York City; Civil-War Virginia; and Camden, NJ.