Monthly Archives: March 2013

A Breathing Palace of Leaves

By Robin Bates | Published: March 31, 2013

Many of Mary Oliver’s nature poems enact a version of the crucifixion and resurrection.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2013

The thuggish way that the Chicago Bulls ended the Miami Heat’s streak recalls Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “harpies of the shore.”

By Robin Bates | Published: March 29, 2013

“She Stoops to Conquer” captures all the pain of adolescent dating failures.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 28, 2013

This Scott Bates poem protesting aerial killing machines could apply to today’s drone program.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 27, 2013

Literature is strewn with hot hells and cold hells. A “New Yorker” article lists a number of them.

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By Robin Bates | Published: March 26, 2013

Rachel Kranz’s “Leaps of Faith” affirms same-sex marriage but questions prioritizing it over other GLBT issues.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2013

America is in many ways like the stage coach rides described by Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 24, 2013

This Chesterton poems recounts Palm Sunday from the donkey’s point of view.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 23, 2013

An old Taoist poem may capture some of the seemingly effortless transcendence of the greatest athletes.