Anne E. Bromley

Henry Martin, one of UVA’s best-known employees, began his life enslaved and died after working on Grounds as a free man for more than 50 years. English professor and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove read her poem about him at UVA’s bicentennial celebration in October 2017 - and it was published in the New Yorker this week.

UVA leaders. including President Jim Ryan, served up appreciation for the contributions of employees who enjoyed breakfast with a smile Tuesday in Newcomb Hall.

UVA’s new Walt Whitman exhibit shows how the great American poet explored the connections between all kinds of people, the human and natural worlds, that seem as relevant today as they were then.