Tag Archives: climate change

Cut the Heat, Plow Through It

By Robin Bates | Published: July 25, 2022

Hilda Doolittle captures heat such as we are currently experiencing it.

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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2022

With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.

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Add the Climate to a Week of Disasters

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2022

Mary Oliver’s poem on climate change mixes wonder and sadness.

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Wanted: Poets to Fight Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: December 29, 2021

To understand role poets can play in fighting climate change, go back to the Romantics and especially “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

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Manchin Delivers a Lump of Coal

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2021

Two Scott Bates environmental Christmas poems are helping me cope with depression over the failure of the Build Back Better bill.

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The Tornadoes and America’s Fairy Tale

By Robin Bates | Published: December 12, 2021

The Kentucky tornadoes bring to mind the cyclone in “Wizard of Oz.”

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Hurricane Ida and Murakami’s 1Q84

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2021

Comparing Hurricane Id’s damage with a supernatural rainstorm in Murakami’s “1Q84” leads to interesting climate observations.

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Aslan as Eco Warrior

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2021

Lewis’s Aslan is a bold creative stroke that opens up environmental possibilities for Christianity.

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Poets and Climate Change’s 5-Alarm Fire

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2021

Literature has a role to play in the fight against climate change. Coleridge early on showed us how.

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