Whitman’s “Song of Myself” calls us to imagine the experience of the Other, just as Obama asked us to imagine the perspective of young black men.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Did Martha Deserve Her Scolding?
A wonderful U. A. Fanthorpe poem tells Mary-Martha story from Mary’s point of view.
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A Pitching Poem to Honor a Pitching Great
Gerald Hern distilled a manager’s dilemme to its essence in his poem about Spahn and Sain.
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Use the Force, Luke–of Shakespeare
Ian Doescher’s new book imagining “Star Wars” as Shakespeare would have written it is very, very clever.
Tolstoyan Therapy for Mental Illness
Guest poster Lucy Fuggle explains how Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” helped her cope with her PTSD.
Vague Identity Adjectives Killed Trayvon
Novelist Susan Bender says that a literary understanding would have prevented the Trayvon Martin killing.
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Trayvon Was an Invisible Man
The racial profiling at the heart of the Trayvon Martin killing is captured nowhere better than in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”
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i put him all into my arms
e. e. cummings’ “man who had fallen among thieves” brings the Good Samaritan parable uncomfortably close to home.
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