Tag Archives: Dogs

Beagles, a Wellspring of Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2013

Two dogs we were keeping recently ran off, triggering a flood of anxiety and poetry.

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Our Dogs Ground Us in the Now

By Robin Bates | Published: April 3, 2013

As Mark Doty reminds us, our dogs recall us to ourselves.

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For a Political Reality Check, Look to Dogs

By Robin Bates | Published: November 22, 2010

What keeps cynical leaders from restructuring reality to suit their ends? Modern democracies have a number of institutions to keep us grounded in truth and principle. In times of stress, these can become the targets of extremist political movements. In America we have rightwing commentators and rightwing media (most notably Rush Limbaugh and Fox “News”) […]

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