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Only What Is Human Can Be Foreign

Szymborska’s beautiful poem “Psalm” provides the perspective we all need on immigrants at the border.

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Poetry Helped Feed Robert E. Lee Myth

Herman Melville and Julie Ward Howe, although anti-slavery, unfortunately wrote poems which helped mythologize Robert E. Lee, whose statues have become symbols of white supremacy. And indeed, Lee was a white supremacist.

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