Tag Archives: "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

Poems for Judaism’s High Holy Days

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2023

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Can Poetry Stop This Man?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 22, 2017

Poetry may not have been able to stop Donald Trump, but it has its ways of mounting resistance. Poems by Tennyson, Auden, and Yeats explain how.

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Back in the Day, We Parsed Sentences

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2010

Time was when grammar was king in the public schools. It didn’t seem to matter whether a student’s writing was interesting but whether it was correct. Then came the “process writing movement” and (in the lower grades) the “creative spelling movement.” The design was to unlock the writing energies that were being stifled by an […]

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