C. T. Suddeth

Poetry Month needs Walt Whitman, most famous of American poets. 1819-1892, he spent his life in the NYC area. Besides being a poet, he was a novelist, journalist, teacher, army nurse, office worker, and more. He is still one of my favorite poets. When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, / And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, /I mourn’d and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.