Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

Schöberlein, Stefan

Blalock, Stephanie M.

English

“A Story of New York at the Present Time”: The Historico-Literary Contexts of Jack Engle

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Fall 2020

Folsom, Ed

Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 38, no. 1

Brickey, Alyson

Whitman’s First-Person Plural

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2020

Turpin, Zachary

Searching for Proud Antoinette: Evidence and Prospects for Whitman’s Phantom Novel

Routhier, Jessica Skwire

Fellow Journeyers Walt Whitman and Jesse Talbot: Painting, Poetry, and Puffery in 1850s New York

O'Neil, Brandon James

A Note from the Managing Editor
Long I was hugg’d close—long and long.
Immense have been the preparations for me,
Faithful and friendly the arms that have help’d me.
—“Song of Myself,” section 44
The story of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review is, as I see it, one of immense 
preparations, impossible to relate without mentioning the “faithful and friend-
ly” support it has received throughout its twenty-seven-year history. When 
the late Gay Wilson Allen founded the Walt Whitman Newsletter at New York 
University in 1955—a four-page centennial celebration of Leaves of Grass—he 
had not intended the work to continue beyond that centennial year; by the time 
of his death in 1995, he had lived to see the Newsletter pass through two more 
incarnations and two more institutions, as the Walt Whitman Review, edited 
by William White at Wayne State University, and finally as the current Walt 
Whitman Quarterly Review, initially co-edited by White and Ed Folsom at the 
University of Iowa. Our journal still stands as a loving tribute to Allen’s devotion 
to Whitman studies, but he is not alone, as evidenced by the continual presence 
of our current and Founding Editorial Board Members listed in every issue’s 
masthead. To this amazing band of Whitman scholars is added the editorial 
insight of Ed Folsom and Stephanie M. Blalock, who guided WWQR’s transition 
in 2015 from a print to an online, open access journal, and oversaw the publica-
tion of the major discoveries and critical contributions in Whitman scholarship 
that mark the past five years. 
These “faithful and friendly . . . arms that have help’d” have seen the 
Quarterly evolve with one goal in mind: to make available to you, “listener up 
there” (as Whitman would have it), the latest Whitman scholarship, criticism, 
and announcements in a convenient and (dare we say it?) pleasurable format. 
To this end, faithful readers of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review might be 
surprised to see some formatting changes in this issue when downloading their 
PDFs. For the current issue, WWQR’s working template has been revamped! 
You will find a more readable text, wider margins, and—most significantly of 
all—a larger page size that conforms to the 8.5” x 11” standard printer sized 
paper. Our rationale for these changes is to prioritize the reader, not only in their 
accessing and reading the published product, but by streamlining the editing 
and publishing process for a more efficient turn-out. I am grateful for the work of 
Stefan Schöberlein, WWQR’s previous Managing Editor, for his thorough guid-
ance when I transitioned into this role. I also cannot too often sing the praises 
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of Alyssa Varner, graphic designer at the University of Iowa Libraries Digital 
Scholarship and Publishing Studio, for her talented structuring of WWQR’s 
new design template. The hours spent with this template are just another part 
of the “immense preparation,” from concept to published product, that brings 
this issue to you.
For this litany of those who “hugg’d [us] close” and for the readers who 
reach out and do the same, these formatting improvements are tenderly dedi-
cated.
Brandon James O’Neil, Managing Editor 
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