Tylias Moss provocatively claims that being a man improved God. Her poem makes a compelling case.
Monthly Archives: June 2020
Juneteenth & Freedom’s Challenges
Rolle’s poem about Juneteenth makes it clear that freedom, no less than fighting for freedom, is hard
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Black Lives, Durable as Daisies
This previously unpublished Lucille Clifton is perfect for our tumultuous time.
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A Second Grader Reads Eliot’s Cats
I’ve been teaching poetry to my second-grade grandson. He’s in love with T. S. Eliot’s cats.
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Pratchett’s Witches to the Rescue
Terry Prachett’s comic fantasy sometimes describes our political reality as well as sophisticated political science.
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There Is a Table Bountifully Spread
Allen Grossman’s “Song of the Lord” celebrates the unlimited bounty of the Lord’s table. While we may have wandered from it, it is always there, calling to us.
Swift on How to Ignore 115,000 Deaths
Trump and others appear to be shrugging off the 115,000 (and counting) Covid-19 deaths in America. Gulliver in Book IV shows similar insensitivity.
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Trump as Low-Rent Lear
I agree with George Will that Trump is like the narcissistic King Lear and his GOP enablers like T.S. Eliot’s Hollow Men
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