Tag Archives: Children

When the World Is Puddle Wonderful

By Robin Bates | Published: March 21, 2014

It was raining yesterday in Pittsburgh on the first day of spring, bringing to mind one of the great poems about the season.

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Lit Helps Father Support a Sick Child

By Robin Bates | Published: January 22, 2014

Jason Blake found himself playing literary roles when his daughter underwent major surgery.

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My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold Grandchildren

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2013

My heart leapt up Wordsworth style when playing with my grandchildren these past two weekends.

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Parental Rule #1: Respect Your Child

By Robin Bates | Published: August 14, 2013

“David Copperfield” enjoins us to respect the interiority of children.

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Haunting Music of the Other World

By Robin Bates | Published: December 23, 2012

Anne Porter shows us how “the fresh truth of children” is central to the Christmas experience.

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A Golf Poem about Liberated Children

By Robin Bates | Published: August 18, 2012

In protest against laboring children, Scott Bates imagines the letter “L” going on strike.

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To Esmé and Alban with Love (No Squalor)

By Robin Bates | Published: June 18, 2012

With names from Salinger and Blake, my two new grandchildren have promising destinies.

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Stuart Little Rescues a Gay Boy

By Robin Bates | Published: May 1, 2012

As an undersized gay child, humorist David Rakoff found a soul mate in Stuart Little.

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Step 1: Become Like Little Children

By Robin Bates | Published: February 20, 2011

Spiritual Sunday We are currently in Staunton, Virginia with our friends Brent and Carter Douglass, having journeyed here to watch two Renaissance plays at the replica of the Elizabethan Blackfriars Theater.  I will have more to say about the plays later this week.  For the moment I share a wonderful poem that Carter has written […]

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