Monthly Archives: December 2012

Roll On, Thou Alabama Crimson Tide, Roll

By Robin Bates | Published: December 22, 2012

Byron’s “deep and dark blue ocean” rolls on and so does the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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The End of the World As We Know It?

By Robin Bates | Published: December 21, 2012

A number of poets have written poems about the apocalypse. But it’s always figurative, never literal.

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Where Was God During Sandy Hook?

By Robin Bates | Published: December 20, 2012

Elie Weisel helps us understand where God was during the Sandy Hook killings.

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Solidarity No Longer Forever in Michigan

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2012

Rachel Kranz’s “Leaps of Faith” provides a vision of unions that are needed in the face of GOP attacks.

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Why (Some) Americans Love Guns

By Robin Bates | Published: December 18, 2012

Gun control is difficult because certain Americans have almost a sexual relationship with guns.

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Songs of Innocence Destroyed

By Robin Bates | Published: December 17, 2012

Blake captures the tragic clash between childhood innocence and worldly corruption that we witnessed in Sandy Hook.

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Love Saith, “Be with Me Where I Am”

By Robin Bates | Published: December 16, 2012

A Christina Rossetti poem about the massacre of the innocents looks for solace for such tragedies in Christ’s love.

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Lamentation and Weeping in Newtown

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2012

The Sandy Hook killings recall the Biblical massacre of the innocents, referenced in “Moby Dick.”

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Bored Students, Don’t Forget Lyre Bird

By Robin Bates | Published: December 14, 2012

Jacques Prévert’s lyre bird comes to the rescue of bored students everywhere.

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