This poet, journalist, and essayist is known as the "father of free verse." Name that humanist.

"I celebrate myself and sing myself, and what I assume, you shall assume, because whatever atom belongs to me as good belongs to you." The 19th century American poet, journalist, and essayist, Walt Whitman, certainly had a feather in his cap. The flair of Leaves of Grass, which championed freeverse, is a love letter to nature and humanity. The "father of free verse" knew how to kick it.

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