Our Commencement was jolted by a reading of Martin Espada’s “Imagine the Angels of Bread.”
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Poetry in the Commencement Ceremony
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Making a Fetish of Suffering
Ivan Karamazov attacks those Christians who rationalize suffering by finding a higher purpose in it.
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Stephen Curry Explodes on the Scene
Like e.e. cummings’ Bill Bill, Warriors guard Stephen Curry shoots onetwothreefourfive baskets. Just like that.
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A Poem for Commencement
Pay attention and you’ll see the magic in graduation.
V-E Day, Whitman, and My 15 Minutes
My 15 minutes: during Slovenia’s 1995 V-E Day celebration I read Walt Whitman to a national television audience.
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The Ballad of Bathtub Gin
“The Ballad of Bathtub Gin” looks back to the days of Appalachian moonshine.
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Novels as Dating Manuals
The predominant readers of 18th century novels were young readers trying to find answers to the questions facing them.
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Novel Readers: The Young & the Restless
The early novel appealed to the young, the ambitious, the mobile, and the urban.
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Fiction Is Best Way to Tell God’s Story
Story-truth superior to happening-truth, in war stories and in Bible.
