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This poem is in the public domain. Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman is the author of Leaves of Grass and, along with Emily Dickinson, is considered one of the architects of a uniquely American poetic voice. About This Poem. This version of “I Hear America Singing” appeared in the 1867 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.