Tag Archives: ghosts

Earth Day: Mary Oliver Notices

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2026

A Mary Oliver poem for Earth Day: “Ghosts” looks back at the large buffalo herds and forward to what it will take to restore nature.

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The Bard Does Halloween

By Robin Bates | Published: October 30, 2015

In honor of Halloween, check out what Shakespeare had to say about ghosts. When his graves yawn and yield up their dead, they produce apparitions that are genuinely frightening.

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Rain Soft as the Fall of Moccasins

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2012

Describing the slaughter of the buffalo herds by whites, Mary Oliver draws on Sioux religion to imagine them as not altogether gone.

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Shakespeare Passages for Halloween

By Robin Bates | Published: October 31, 2011

Shakespeare has memorable passages about ghosts that are appropriate for Halloween.