Monthly Archives: May 2013

Poetry in the Commencement Ceremony

By Robin Bates | Published: May 13, 2013

Our Commencement was jolted by a reading of Martin Espada’s “Imagine the Angels of Bread.”

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Making a Fetish of Suffering

By Robin Bates | Published: May 12, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: May 11, 2013

Like e.e. cummings’ Bill Bill, Warriors guard Stephen Curry shoots onetwothreefourfive baskets. Just like that.

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A Poem for Commencement

By Robin Bates | Published: May 10, 2013

Pay attention and you’ll see the magic in graduation.

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V-E Day, Whitman, and My 15 Minutes

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: May 8, 2013

“The Ballad of Bathtub Gin” looks back to the days of Appalachian moonshine.

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Novels as Dating Manuals

By Robin Bates | Published: May 7, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: May 6, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: May 5, 2013

Story-truth superior to happening-truth, in war stories and in Bible.

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