Nearly eight years ago, Dan Guillory began writing about Abraham Lincoln's love for Ann Rutledge. Along the way, the project was transformed into a book about the only poet president.

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I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 12.—This poem, written by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in her 90th year, was read by her at the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in Symphony Hall to-night: ...

THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.; A New Tone Poem on Lincoln by Fritz Stahlberg Played. Share full article. Feb. 14, 1909. Credit... The New York Times Archives.