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Looking for Whitman
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![American poet Walt Whitman holding a butterfly.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2019-10/whitman-portrait.jpg?itok=2oTI5jQP)
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American poet Walt Whitman holding a butterfly.
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![American poet Walt Whitman holding a butterfly.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2019-10/whitman-portrait.jpg?itok=2oTI5jQP)
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.